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From: beloin@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Ron Beloin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Creating a new stack from a script (no dialog)
Summary: use copyfile, renamefile xcmds on a template stack
Message-ID: <5539@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 16 Jul 88 23:25:37 GMT
References: <1729@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> <10520011@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Reply-To: beloin@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Ron Beloin)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <10520011@hpfcdc.HP.COM> bayes@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Scott Bayes) writes:
>>     I need to create a new stack in from a script.
>>The problem is to create one with a name that I assign
>>it from the script.  In other words, I can not do it
>>with 'DoMenu "New Stack..."' since this will bring up
>>a dialog for the user.
.
>
>Please post any enlightenment you might provide or receive
>on this point. I too wish to generate a name for a new Stack
>without the user having to hold a dialog with HC over it.
>
>Scott Bayes

I just copied this from the developer's stack, v. 1.2r :
The CopyFile XFCN was written by Brad J. Hicks to give HyperCard
 the ability to copy a file (such as a stack) with full script
 control (necessary for making backup copies of a stack automatically,
 for example).

Use it freely, but I would appreciate a thank-you or acknowledgement somewhere in the stack.  

Brad J. Hicks
FidoNet:
1:100/523
CompuServe:
[76012,300]
SUS Mail:
11215 Sugartrail
St. Louis, MO 63136

Seems like one could use this xfnc to copy a template stack that
was make ahead of time and rename it (there is also a rename xfnc)
completely under script control.
Ron Beloin, Ecosystems Research Center, Corson Hall, Cornell, Ithaca,NY 14853
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