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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: A good book for desscribing nitty gritty of XCMDs and language use
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Date: 21 May 88 18:05:27 GMT
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>I'm sure this has circultaed before, but what is a good technical
>source for XCMD writing?

The only documentaion I'm aware of right now is the APDA technical specs.
Dan Shafer is going to have a book out later this year, probably aroudn the
time of the Boston Expo in August. And considering the sheer number of
HyperTalk books that have been published so far, I'd expect at least 400
XCMD books to be published in the next year.

>Goodman's book and two others (purportedly on HyperTalk, hah!) had
>nothing that I could find on this.

Hypertalk has nothing to do with XCMDS or XFCNS. HyperTalk is the HyperCard
programming language. XCMDS and XFCNS is an interface that allows external
programmed modules to be stuck into HyperCard. Completely different beasts


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