Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!lll-lcc!well!espen From: espen@well.UUCP (Peter Espen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Hypercard lossage Message-ID: <3891@well.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Sep-87 00:09:07 EDT Article-I.D.: well.3891 Posted: Sat Sep 5 00:09:07 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Sep-87 02:05:36 EDT References: <1017@vi.ri.cmu.edu> Lines: 12 Keywords: hypercard Summary: Reading and Writing to Modem In article <1017@vi.ri.cmu.edu>, rwb@vi.ri.cmu.edu (Bob Berger) writes: > Hypercard would be the ideal program for accessing various touch-tone > based information services. Unfortunately, the dial command ignores > "*" and "#", which many of these services use. Apparantly the programmer > never saw a need to dial non-digits. Sigh. > > > Robert Berger > Berger@c.cs.cmu.edu I also wish HyperCard would let you have a READ and WRITE function for communicating with the Macs serial ports!