Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop
From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Manual for HyperCard Scripts
Message-ID: <435@stech.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 88 13:33:35 GMT
References: <6849@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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in article <6849@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) says:
> 
> I've recently been given a Mac II with 5 megs of memory
> and HyperCard at work. I read the HyperCard User's
> Guide, but it tells me almost nothing about how to
> write scripts. Once I'd used the program, I began
> to read this news group. Can someone recommend a
> good source on scripts? It seems strange that one
> wasn't bundled with the program.
> 

There are several sources at this point.  There is a manual available from
APDA.  Along with it you get information and a disk of utilities for writing
XCMD's.  Then there is Danny Goodman's book, which isn't terribly conveniently
organized (like some other posters to this newsgroup, I wish it were 
alphabetical by command for quick and easy reference) but which has tons of
good info and examples.  Recently a couple of books have been published
specifically about HyperTalk.  A trip to a B. Dalton or Waldenbooks at this
time could do wonders ...


Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
ihnp4!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop

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