Quintessential XCMDs

[Richard Gaskin]

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.

The list is here if aqnyone wants to take a gander:
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HyperCard/message/18224>

It might be fun if someone has time on their hands to rewrite them as native
Transcript handlers.  Most of them are fairly trivial.

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