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From: fry@huma1.HARVARD.EDU (David Fry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: another hypercard questions: card number
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Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 18:52:22 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  5 18:52:22 1987
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In article <29981@sun.uucp> chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>[Anyone for comp.sys.mac.hypercard? or comp.lang.hypercard?
>
>Here's another one that should be a no-brainer, but the information doesn't
>seem to be in the Goodman book. I want to have a line on one of my cards
>that says "card #<num> of <num>". I can find the second value, the total
>number of cards. I can't find any documentation for getting what card number
>this is. Goodman simply says "since cards can be re-arranged, use the card
>id and not that card number" -- well, I WANT that card number.

You want to ask for "the number of this card".  Pretty nifty,
huh?  I think you should give Goodman's book more credit;
these things are in there, albeit well hidden.

David Fry				fry@huma1.harvard.EDU
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