HyperCard Porting

[J. Landman Gay]

On 6/4/03 2:04 PM, eric.allen.engle at justice.com wrote:

>>FWIW, I've never knowingly compacted a stack before
>>importing it - and never
>>seen a problem caused by this - but it can't hurt!
>>
> 
> 
> Actually the metaCard documentation explicitly says you
> should (i.e. must) compact stacks before importing
> them. And I have had this cause runtime errors, though
> sometimes they are not as dramatic as a system crash.

I've had crashes with imported HC stacks. As soon as I compacted the 
stack in HyperCard, the MC import went fine. I think it's important.

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