[comp.sys.mac.hypercard] marking cards

david@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (David Kaufmann) (02/12/91)

A simple question: how do I do it? Please e-mail answers. Thanks.

David Kaufmann
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Ken.Knight@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Ken Knight) (02/17/91)

mikef@bbs.acs.unc.edu (Michael Freedburg) asks:
>You know, I hate this!! This is a problem to which there is a solution
>so simple, so elegent, so **obvious** that my tired and now dessicated
>brain has no power left to come up with it. I need to mark only the
>cards of a certain background in my mailing label stack, which
contains
>three backgrounds. Now, of course I could write a little loop
   [ lines deleted ]
>I know that there is some way
>for me to use the more extensive mark cards where syntax, but what is
>it? I tried to do: mark cards where name of background contains
>"TheLabels" but this does not work of course.
 
You had the right idea, Micheal. Try instead:
mark cards where the short name of this bkgnd is "theLabels" instead.
 
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