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From: dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: RE: Hypercard User Interface
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Date: 17 Dec 87 17:17:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner    Dec 17 11:17:00 1987


>I don't really think that the "non-standard" parts of the HC user interface
>are a big problem.  I think the big problem is the parts that Atkinson left
>out.  To wit:

I'd like to add to the list of missing HC features:

Find BACKWARDS.

I wrote a stack to manage my checkbook.  I often want to search from the END
of the stack to find the LAST occurrence of something.  Unfortunately, I cannot.
While I can write a script to do this, it's SLOW.  Find is fast.
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