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Article #19472Re: HyperTalk Reference Manual//XCMDs
From: dtw
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1987 01:44
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1987 01:44
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The HyperCard Technical Reference manual is a "Working Draft" (number 4). It's pretty disappointing! There is little (if anything) there that you don't already have in the Help stack. I sort of felt "ripped off"; I suppose I'm going to have to pay more money to get the final official documentation. There's an appendix on "External Commands". It's 32 pages of Pascal and C header and source files! In other words, you don't get real documentation for XCMDs and XFCNs, but you do get enough information to enable you to write your own XCMDs. There's also an Alpha Draft of the HyperCard Stack Design Guidelines. This is genuinely new material. The most useful thing you get from APDA is a disk with header and glue files and sources for various XCMDs. Duane Williams (dtw@cs.cmu.edu)
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!rochester!PT!f.gp.cs.cmu.edu!dtw From: dtw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: HyperTalk Reference Manual//XCMDs Message-ID: <111@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 21:44:14 EDT Article-I.D.: f.111 Posted: Thu Sep 24 21:44:14 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 14:27:15 EDT References: <488@hyper.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 18 Keywords: xcmd,hypercard,hypertalk