Hello Arto,
Here are possible answers to three of your four questions.
Sincerely,
Clark Parsons
Learning Products
Hewlett-Packard Company
clarkp@fc.hp.com
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> Subject: caps in paths
>
> I am trying to use mc 1.3A6 but it gives me hard time to do anything.
> The path to mc directory is .../common_lib/MetaCard/1.3A6, but it keeps
> on trying to find files from .../common_lib/metacard/1.3A6. It opens all
> right but cant save or do about anything.
Until the next release of MetaCard, apparently, MetaCard converts
all path names to lowercase before it tries to write. Until then,
change the path to .../common_lib/metacard/1.3a6. This is all lower-
case and it will work OK.
>
> Does mc automatically save opened stacks into mchome or does it save only
> after explicit save. If I have 3 hc stacks and I want to convert them
> to one mc stack and put other two into substacks, what is fastest way.
> Say A=mainStack, B, C substacks.
I haven't converted any hc stacks to mc stacks, but you would probably
use a procedure similar to the following one. I would use this if I
had three mainstacks that I wanted to combine the way you suggest.
- open your home stack and the message box
- execute the following lines from the message box:
toplevel "A"
toplevel "B"
toplevel "C"
set the mainstack of stack "B" to "A"
set the mainstack of stack "C" to "A"
save stack "A"
Now stacks "B" and "C" should be substacks of stack "A". If you
change "B" or "C" and save it, the entire mainstack "A" is re-saved.
>
> There is somewhere a stack that I cant find. When I open a stack with name
> kl-stack it opens. But when I use navigator to go next card, another stack
> with a name kl-stack opens up. How I delete this unwanted version.
The safest way is to rename your kl-stack to km-stack; use the Stack
Properties... dialog to do this. Then when you open a stack, at least
you will know which one you are using. Delete the old kl-stack you
don't want--you can do this from the message box with: delete stack
"kl-stack"--and then you can rename the km-stack back to kl-stack if
you want to.
>
> How come when I open hc stack, I get no errors, but when I try to go to that
> stack after saving it as mainStack, I get error not a mc or hc stack.
I don't know an answer to this one.
>
> Arto Leskinen
> aleskine@cs.hut.fi
>
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