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From: kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: appleshare & hypercard,hypercard move files between volumes
Keywords: hypercard, appleshare, files
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Date: 14 Jul 88 11:57:34 GMT
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In article <13903@apple.Apple.COM> dan@apple.apple.com.UUCP (Dan Allen) writes:
>These particular functions are not available in any XCMDs that I am
>aware of, but could easily be written.  Just get yourself a copy of MPW
>and MPW Pascal, Gary Bond's XCMD book ("XCMDs for HyperCard"), and a
>copy of Inside Macintosh. ... (You may need "Inside AppleTalk", for example.)

Gee, MPW and MPW Pascal... that's a few hundred dollars. Plus five volumes
of Inside Mac at approx $25/book. Plus an Inside Mac X-Ref at $10. Plus
an extra $20 or so for the Gary Bond book. That's only about $400 to $500
dollars total.

Alternative advice: buy the books you need, by all means, but pass on MPW.
Cheaper alternatives are Turbo Pascal, Lightspeed Pascal, and Lightspeed C.
XCMD's can be written using each of these compilers.