ben@ut-emx.UUCP (Benjamin Sloan) (02/19/89)
Does anybody know of an easy way to merge two stacks? Given identical stacks, each with a collection of cards with identical backgrounds, how would one combine these into one big stack? Of course, one could cut or copy cards one at a time from one stack to the other, or write a script to do it, but shouldn't there be an easier way? Thanks in advance for your help. Ben Sloan ben@emx.utexas.edu
johnv@sequent.UUCP (John VanZandt) (06/05/90)
I have two 'address' stacks which I'd like to merge. Does anyone have a script which will merge the stacks without creating two backgrounds? John Van Zandt Sequent Computer Systems uunet!sequent!johnv
gannholm@apple.com (Martin Gannholm) (06/06/90)
In article <36192@sequent.UUCP> johnv@sequent.UUCP (John VanZandt) writes: > I have two 'address' stacks which I'd like to merge. Does anyone have > a script which will merge the stacks without creating two backgrounds? I wrote an XCMD a few years back that will merge *any* bkgnds together, regardless of how different they appear or how many fields are on either. I am posting the stack with the XCMD to comp.binaries.mac. Martin Gannholm Apple Computer I have nothing to disclaim...
willcox@urbana.mcd.mot.com (David A Willcox) (06/07/90)
>> I have two 'address' stacks which I'd like to merge. Does anyone have >> a script which will merge the stacks without creating two backgrounds? I was under the impression, from something I read some time ago, that doing a "Copy Card" in one stack and "Paste Card" multiple times would result in the second stack having a bunch of separate backgrounds, each with one card. However, I tried it last nite and found out otherwise. I copied all cards in one background between stacks essentially as follows (this from memory): on cpbg tgtStack,theBg set lockMessages to true set lockScreen to true push card go first card of background theBg repeat with i = 1 to the number of cards in background theBg domenu "Copy Card" push card go stack tgtStack go last card of background theBg domenu "Paste Card" pop card go next card of background theBg end repeat pop card end cpbg When I looked at the background information for the background in question in the target stack, it said that the background was shared by a bunch of cards, so I deduce that multiple backgrounds were not created. This seems to work even with very old versions of HyperCard. Am I deceived? David A. Willcox "Just say 'NO' to universal drug testing" Motorola MCD - Urbana UUCP: ...!uiucuxc!udc!willcox 1101 E. University Ave. INET: willcox@urbana.mcd.mot.com Urbana, IL 61801 FONE: 217-384-8534
lev@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Brian S. Lev) (06/08/90)
In article <1276@urbana.mcd.mot.com>, willcox@urbana.mcd.mot.com (David A Willcox) writes... >>> I have two 'address' stacks which I'd like to merge. Does anyone have >>> a script which will merge the stacks without creating two backgrounds? > >I was under the impression, from something I read some time ago, that >doing a "Copy Card" in one stack and "Paste Card" multiple times would >result in the second stack having a bunch of separate backgrounds, >each with one card. o o o In my (still somewhat limited) experience, each card you copy between stacks carries a copy of its background; the final result is the sum of the different backgrounds. In (hopefully!) clearer terms: START: Stack A, bg a, cd A1-An (all cards have bg "a") Stack B, bg b, cd B1-Bn (all cards have bg "b") PROCESS: Copy cards B1-B4 into Stack A END: Stack A, bg a&b, cd A1-An+4 (stack now contains 2 backgrounds) Stack B, bg b, cd B1-Bn (all cards have bg "b") +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Brian Lev/STX (301)286-9514 (FTS)888-9514 | | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center DECnet: SDCDCL::LEV (6153::LEV) | | Advanced Data Flow Technology Office TCP/IP: lev@dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov | | Code 930.4 BITNET: LEV@DFTBIT | | Greenbelt, MD 20771 TELENET: [BLEV/GSFCMAIL] | | X.400 Address: (C:USA,ADMD:TELEMAIL,PRMD:GSFC,O:GSFCMAIL,UN:BLEV) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "The ability of a network to knit together the members of a sprawling | | community has proved to be the most powerful way of fostering scienti- | | fic advancement yet discovered." -- Peter Denning | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | DISCLAIMER: THESE STATEMENTS ARE MY OWN AND *NOT* NASA'S OR STX'S! | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
david@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (David Kaufmann) (11/09/90)
I have three address stacks, imported to the MAC and transferred to HC (the data was originally on an IBM--somebody else's). These stacks are used almost exclusively for mailing labels (although phone no.s are on 1 or 2). Many of the names are duplicates in the stack. What I would like to do is 1) combine the 3 stacks into one master and 2) have a flag on that master so I can select which labels to print according to the current categories. I suspect using more than one background may do it, but I'm a bit lost. (This is not HC2.) Thanks. David Kaufmann INTERNET: david@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu