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hans@ditmela.oz (Hans Eriksson) writes:


>I have a program on my Sun that works in the usual command-line
>oriented fashion. I want to write a front-end to that in HyperCard.

If you do an absolutely GREAT job with HyperCard, it will run very 
slowly. If you do a so-so job in HyperCard, it will run so slow as
to be virtually unuseable.


>How do I access the Sun from within HyperCard? Any chance of TCP
>access and rlogin?

>Any package around for handling the serialport on the mac from HC?

I don't know about HC TCP access, but there are a few packages out and
around for read, writing, and controlling the serial ports. From what
I've heard, Harry Chesley (I hope I got the name right!), author of the
ex-file compression standard "PackIt", put together such a package.
haven't used it myself, but I've browsed through the stack and the XFNC
are pretty clear and easy to use. I've also heard news of soon to be
released commercial package which will roll its own text window which
will be fast enough to deal with incomming text (something HyperCard
has trouble with).

Chesley's stuff is in the HyperCard DLs on CompuServe.

An alternative would be to wait for a few weeks (after MacWorld?) until
MicroPhone II v.3.0 comes out. This com program has extensive EXTENSIVE
scripting capabilities and it is FAST.

Sorry I wasn't more help with the HyperCard stuff.

  
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Scott Truesdell