Quintessential XCMDs

[Geoff Canyon]

For anyone who's interested, the list in question is at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HyperCard/messages

Alas, I don't know the available XCMDs well enough to know what each of 
the ones on the list does. I'm curious, though -- what were the seven 
and what do they do?

On Tuesday, December 24, 2002, at 08:45 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> I thought this was interesting: Today on the HyperCard mailing list a 
> member posted a list of 66 XCMDs/XFCNs that he considered 
> "quintessential" -- externals that a serious developer simply could 
> not do without. I was familiar with almost all of them, having used 
> most of them myself. Scanning the list, I found only seven that 
> MetaCard could not do natively, and one of those seven I left in the 
> list because I wasn't sure exactly what its purpose was.

regards,

Geoff Canyon
gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com