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From: ugogan@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Jim Gogan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: hypercard saving speed
Keywords: text files, write command
Message-ID: <5457@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Date: 25 Jul 88 16:43:16 GMT
Organization: UNC - Chapel Hill
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I am writing a stack to take care of keeping bibliographies, using
the MLA format. When it writes the material to a text file, it goes
through every field, 20 total in this version and 1 bkgnd, writes
the card to a temp variable,goes to the next card and adds it to the

it to the text file on the hard disk. My question is: how fast should
the save be? I have twenty cards each with twenty fields, if the field
is empty, it is skipped. Right now it is taking a second per card!!
This seems really slow, can anyone out there help a beginner?
There must be some clever loop, or something to save time doing the 
save, cuz 1 sec/card is forever with a 400 card stack. Help me!!
I am using Jim's id to post this until I get my own id. So send him
the answers and he will pass them on. Thanks in advance from a first
time logonner(?)
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     Jim Gogan                             mail:ugogan@ecsvax (UUCP/BITNET)
     Microcomputing Support Center
     University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
     Chapel Hill, NC  27599