Help with custom properties (or something like that)

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 6:22 PM -0400 4/16/2006, Cubist at aol.com wrote:
>    I'm working with MetaCard 2.4.1, running under MacOS 9.0.2 (it serves my
>needs, what can I say?). I have a stack with a custom property called
>"AdMailTemplate". This property contains a file. I know it's *in* 
>there, because the
>statement "answer the length of (the AdMailTemplate of this stack)" 
>gives me the
>length of the file... but "answer (the AdMailTemplate of this stack)" gives
>me *nothing*.

The answer command will put that property into a field, so if it 
contains nulls it's certainly possible that it will screw up the 
display such that you won't see anything.

What format was the file to start with? What happens if you put the 
custom property into a file: or binfile: URL - does it reconstitute 
the file?
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