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   ocr: How to use this example stack: This stack reads in a comma-delimited text file from another database prugram. My file was formatted as follows: Tilename,date,datalen,resourcelen,type,creator,llags,diskname Each line is read into a new card and the first 8 fields of the card are filled by extracting items from the comma-delimited list. Note: my file doesn't have any files with cummds in the filename or diskname!! The item extraction depends on this. This is a very simple example of using scripts in HyperCard, and its purpose is not to be a good disk catalogger, but just to get you started with ...