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From: dtw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: HyperTalk Reference Manual//XCMDs
Message-ID: <111@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 21:44:14 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 24 21:44:14 1987
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Keywords: xcmd,hypercard,hypertalk


The HyperCard Technical Reference manual is a "Working Draft" (number 4).
It's pretty disappointing!  There is little (if anything) there that you
don't already have in the Help stack.  I sort of felt "ripped off"; I
suppose I'm going to have to pay more money to get the final official
documentation.

There's an appendix on "External Commands".  It's 32 pages of Pascal and C
header and source files!  In other words, you don't get real documentation
for XCMDs and XFCNs, but you do get enough information to enable you to
write your own XCMDs.  There's also an Alpha Draft of the HyperCard Stack
Design Guidelines.  This is genuinely new material.

The most useful thing you get from APDA is a disk with header and glue files
and sources for various XCMDs.

Duane Williams
(dtw@cs.cmu.edu)