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- From: bcarter@claven.idbsu.edu (Bruce Carter)
- Subject: Re: FAQ? - Porting HyperCard prog. to DOS
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.140539.13209@guinness.idbsu.edu>
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- Organization: Boise State University - CBI Product Development
- References: <quinton.714231578@sun-3>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:05:39 GMT
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- In article <quinton.714231578@sun-3> quinton@sun-3.cs.uct.ac.za (Quinton Hoole)
- writes:
- >Apologies for the possibly naive question, but I'm totally green to
- >this group and have in fact never used a Mac before (no more sympathy
- >mail please:-).
- >
- >I have HyperCard application developed on a Mac, and require it to run
- >on an IBM-PC. I have been referred to something called Plus, which
- >apparently runs on the PC and interprets the HyperCard prog.
-
- Plus has both a Mac and a PC version. The process would be to read the
- HyperCard stack into the Mac version of Plus, then convert it to the PC version
- of Plus. This, unfortunately, means you have to buy two versions of Plus.
-
- Reasonable results can be obtained in converting HyperCard stacks to ToolBook.
- The conversion can be manual, or can be helped along by a product called
- ConvertIt! from Heizer Software. I have not as yet used ConvertIt!, but
- reports are that it is about 75-80% effective in the conversion. You will have
- to do some hand tuning regardless.
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