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From: beloin@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Ron Beloin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HyperCard stack multi-access
Message-ID: <2659@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 16:10:01 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 15 16:10:01 1987
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Reply-To: beloin@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Ron Beloin)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Summary: auto-save even in browse

In article <30928@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>>One thing is for sure: auto-save will be "fixed" in some manner.  Otherwise
>>Hypercard will never be able to open the much-hyped CD-ROM stacks!
>
>I don't see this at all. Set the user level to 'browse' only, and you're all
>set for CD-ROM. Since you can't change it, just let the user sniff around.

I was also annoyed at the time-stamping of stacks that I had't touched
(but opened), so I tried
on openStack
set userlevel to browse
end openStack
Well, it doesn't work. Even in browse only, HC still changes the
mod date.
I think they'll probably fix this eventually.
ron.