esimon@eagle.wesleyan.edu (08/29/90)
Greetings. I am not a regular reader of this group, but I have a question that has been bothering me for some time, and I hope you don't mind if I ask it, and humbly request a response via Email: How can I extract text from my hypercard stacks, for downloading onto a mainframe ? My naive guess was to write a report out to disk, and dump the file via Kermit, but, as you've probably guessed, HyperCard won't write a report out to disk. I figure there must be a utility to perform the extraction function. Can someone name one that I might be able to FTP anonymously ? Your help is very much appreciated, take care, ejs --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Eric J. Simon Harvard Univerity HU GSAS BMCDB G2 | | SIMON@HUXTAL.BITNET, SIMON@XTAL0.HARVARD.EDU | ---------------------------------------------------------------------
jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto) (09/01/90)
In article <1990Aug28.160744.32733@eagle.wesleyan.edu> esimon@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes: >How can I extract text from my hypercard stacks, for downloading >onto a mainframe ? You'll need to write a script using the HyperTalk commands "open file", "write <string> to file", and "close file". Here is an example: on mouseUp open file "My Report" -- creates it if it doesn't already exist repeat with x = 1 to the number of cards write (field "Text" of card x) & return to file "My Report" end repeat close file "My Report" end mouseUp -- ========= jeanne a. e. devoto ======================================== jdevoto@apple.com | You may not distribute this article under a jdevoto@well.sf.ca.us | compilation copyright without my permission. ______________________________________________________________________ Apple Computer and I are not authorized | CI$: 72411,165 to speak for each other. |
hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE) (09/01/90)
In article <44473@apple.Apple.COM> jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto) writes: >In article <1990Aug28.160744.32733@eagle.wesleyan.edu> >esimon@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes: >>How can I extract text from my hypercard stacks, for downloading >>onto a mainframe ? > >You'll need to write a script using the HyperTalk commands "open file", >"write <string> to file", and "close file". Here is an example: Or use stackdumper. You can find it available for anonymous ftp from nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100). It's in hyper dir and called stackdumper20.sit -- == Harri Valkama, University of Vaasa, Finland ================================ | P.O. Box 700, 65101 VAASA, Finland (tel:+358 61 248426 fax:+358 61 248465) | | hv@uwasa.fi hv@nic.funet.fi hv@flame.uwasa.fi harri.valkama@wmac00.uwasa.fi | = Moderating at chyde.uwasa.fi (128.214.12.3) & nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) ==