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From: bayes@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Scott Bayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: What to do about > 32K of data?
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Date: 28 Mar 89 20:08:58 GMT
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Dan, thank you for the response. Sorry if I came on too strong.

I have found some of the limitations of HC to seem somewhat arbritrary. Whether
they are arbitrary, or are dictated by the internal model is something I can by
definition have no competent opinion on. I DID think I heard you saying "It's
this way because that's how a HyperText system SHOULD be" rather than "because
that's the only reasonable way we can make it work."

BTW, to call HC, in its present incarnation, a "hypertext application", seems
a bit farfetched. Will 2.0 give us real text links. Huh? Huh? Please!

I don't currently use HC as a HyperText system, as it is so painful to do
hypertexty things with. Graphics seems well served (within the limitations of
a paint model, which I accept), whereas text seems somewhat more casually
dealt with. Excellent for a get-it-out-the-door-and-start-people-wanting-it
first revision, but to put hypertextual meat on the "for-the-rest-of-us" bones,
I think you gotta have text links.

Youse guys done good. I bought a Mac very soon after I saw _The Computer
Chronicles_ review of HC in late summer '87; HC was a very big reason.

Thanks
Scott Bayes