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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: "AffiniFile" DA
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Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 12:19:40 EST
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In article <18923@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> robertj@yale.UUCP writes:
>This sounds like a really interesting idea.  I guess it's sort of a
>data-extraction DA that lets you pull stuff out of stacks from within
>other programs. 

One qualification -- a friend gave the makers of AffiniFile a call, and they
said that the wrong impression was given in the MacWeek article --
AffiniFile cannot DIRECTLY snatch information from a HyperCard stack -- it
must first be imported into the proper format for AffiniFile.  This was
something of a disappointment to me, as I thought I could it to turn
HyperCard into a Picturebase-like Clip Art database, thus getting all of
HyperCard's bitmap graphics compression ability without having to rely on
MultiFinder for access.  However, now that I've got 2.5 Megs and
MultiFinder, I'll probably go that way anyhow, and use Picturebase for
storing object-structured art.

I've glanced at AffiniFile, though, and it appears to be a VERY nice
organizational DA.  Rumor has it that it puts Acta to shame...

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