Mail merge using Hypercard data ?

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From: Mark J. McIntosh
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 1989 00:42

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   [Reposting due to an error - hope I cancelled first version in time!]

   I am looking for a way to do mail merge using data stored in several fields
in a Hypercard stack.  To make things clearer, what I want to do is take ASCII
text from Hypercard fields on a series of cards and paste them into a template
word processing document, thus producing form letters.

   Has anyone out in netland done this?  Right now, we are thinking of getting
a Hypercard script to write an ASCII data file in the format required by the
data portion of mail merges in a word processor (like WriteNow 2.0 [once we
get it, nudge nudge, wink wink]). Then one would have to run WriteNow to get
the result.  This doesn't sound too hard, but we are wondering if someone has
a better idea.

   Will summarize and post if response warrants.  Thanks!

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Mark J. McIntosh <mmcintos%sirius.uvic.ca@ubc.CSNET>
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From: mmcintos@uvicctr.UUCP (Mark J. McIntosh)
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Subject: Mail merge using Hypercard data ?
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Date: 7 Jan 89 00:42:56 GMT
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