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From: nash@russell.STANFORD.EDU (Ron Nash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Multi-stack retrievals
Message-ID: <2010@russell.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 28 Jan 88 04:08:38 GMT
References: <423@stech.UUCP>
Reply-To: nash@russell.UUCP (Ron Nash)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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In article <423@stech.UUCP> sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) writes:
>Ok - I give up.  Maybe this is a stupid question, but for some reason
>hypercard can't find a card in another stack.
>
>The statement is:
>
>put line degf of card field column of card StudentsT of stack Tables into tValue
>
>I _know_ the card is named StudentsT. Hypercard seems to have no trouble
>"going" to a card in another stack, but when I'm simply trying to retrieve
>data stored in another stack, it keeps telling me it can't find the card.
>
>Any hints of suggestions?

Not a stupid question. HC claims to do this but doesn't.
Try doing a 'get' before you do a 'put'. That seems to work.


Ron Nash
Center for the Study of Language and Information
nash@russell.stanford.edu