Re: More newbie queries: paths
Re: More newbie queries: paths
- Subject: Re: More newbie queries: paths
- From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 21:58:54 +1000
On Sunday, May 5, 2002, at 12:26 AM, Jon Pugh wrote:
At 12:34 AM +1000 5/5/02, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
Apple once showed us the way past DOS, we now wait for them to
learn their own way past unix. It's all so MCMLXXI, bring on OS
MMII!
At this point we'll never get "past" unix. It's here to stay, much
like Classic is, but we can argue that some other time. Right now
it's our unix legacy in the making. We're going to accumulate unix
installers and unix customizations and unix mannerisms. Start
preparing by omitting vwls frm yr wrds.
Nevertheless, your suggestion is valid. We need HyperCard for X.
That's all there is to it.
Jon
I always feel like a teenager hearing his dad rave on and on
about how albums were SO much better than 'all this newfangled
stuff' when I hear someone here championing HyperCard. And I'm
getting old!
So, can someone educate me as to why it was (and I'm sure it
still is ;) SO great? Do it's variables hold bigger cover art?
--Paul Skinner
I was a post-grad studying literature in 1990 and I had to "do"
something with some "data." I was pointed to HyperCard, although the
computer shop geeks said I would be better off learning C. (They were
probably right).
HyperCard did/does anything you want it to (except colour). It was as
easy as falling over.
I have a variety of stacks that I keep and a couple that I still use!
My biggest effort was to make a stack to contain the Complete Old
English Corpus designed to run on a Mac Classic B/W (approx 3000
cards, one text per card, the largest text required 22 text fields).
The stack I use most frequently reads a file in bit by bit until it
gets an error. I use it to read files that suffer from EOF errors, it
simply reads up until EOF or a read error then writes a new file with
the recovered data.
For a while I was using HyperCard as the user interface for scripted
tasks. Now I use Filemaker and applescript.
--
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Malcolm Fitzgerald email@hidden
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