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From: alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Hypercard binary format
Message-ID: <2973@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 88 01:35:02 GMT
References: <9142@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Sender: usenet@saturn.ucsc.edu
Reply-To: alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; CATS
Lines: 9
Keywords: hypercard, binary format, reverse engineering

HyperCard uses either 24 or 31 different compression schemes. I've forgotten
which. This makes reverse engineering it very impossible, leading me to
believe that HyperDA was written with help from Apple.

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