Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!rutgers!apple!dan
From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HyperCard syntax reference found
Message-ID: <17249@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 16 Sep 88 17:59:46 GMT
References: <2992@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: dan@apple.com.UUCP (Dan Allen)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <2992@pt.cs.cmu.edu> tgl@zog.cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) writes:
>Apple has finally published the HyperCard Script Language Guide in book
>form; you don't have to go to APDA to get it.  I have in my hands a copy
>which I found at a local B. Dalton's last night.  It's hardcover, $22.95,
>300 plus pages, well laid out and printed.  It appears to be a very recent
>publication: the printing date is July 1988, and there is an appendix
>covering HyperCard 1.2 features.

I am glad to hear that the book is in the stores.  Dan Winkler and
myself spent a lot of time reviewing this book for accuracy.  It is
certainly the most accurate book about HyperTalk that is currently on
the market at this time.  It answers MOST of the questions that are
raised on the net.  Life would be great if everyone could get this book
and be familiar with it so that the net could concentrate on the new and
difficult and fun challenges rather than the basics.  Of course, really
understanding the basics also should take place on the net...

Dan Allen
HyperCard Team
Apple Computer