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From: kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Writing cards to a text file
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Date: 9 Jun 88 20:47:31 GMT
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In article <13394@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> ryan@CS.UCLA.EDU (Ryan R. Ramsey) writes:
>The problem is that in order to write the next I actually have to be
>on that physical card. As you can imagine, trying to write 500+ cards takes
>a long time... Is there any way to do this other than the way I do it?

Use container expressions such as 
     "bkgnd field 1 of card i"
Where i is the number of the card.
You don't have to be "on" the card in order to access its data.