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From: jwhitnel@csi.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell)
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Subject: Re: Call for votes: comp.binaries.hypercard
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Date: 29 Feb 88 18:33:19 GMT
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In article <18326@topaz.rutgers.edu> webber@topaz.rutgers.edu (Webber) writes:
>
>> >If hypercard is any
>> >good, its stacks will be of interest to many people other than mac owners
>> 
>> Except, of course, that Hypercard only runs on a mac.
>
>It is not necessary to run Hypercard to extract info from a stack anymore
>than it is necessary to have troff to make use of bibliographies passed
>around in refer format (as long as the format is easily readable like the
>refer format is).

Fine, Bob.  All you have to do is write a little utility that extracts the
textual parts from a binary hypercard stack and puts them in whatever format
you want.  All the information you want (the text and the Hypertalk code) is
stored in the stack, so it should be easy to get at.  Then you can have what
you want, we Mac user's can have what we want and everybodys happy.  But please
don't expect us to support you.  We have are Macs and can use the information
as it comes.  If you want it in some other format, you translate it.

>----- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)

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