Subject: New TP HyperCard stack at ftp site
From: larryy@Apple.COM (Larry Yaeger)
Date: 1991-08-13, 20:27
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Well, this also answers the latest query on where the ftp site is located...

Peter Asenstorfer, our erudite ftp site administrator, has just informed
me that a file I dropped at the ftp site has now been moved to the usual
/pub/twin-peaks area, in a new Hypercard_Stacks subdirectory.  This is
on audrey.sait.edu.au, or 130.220.16.88.  [Note, Peter will announce next
week, probably, that after Aug. 17 (this Saturday!) the TP archives will
be relocated to audrey.levels.unisa.edu.au.  He expects the IP number to
stay the same.]

The new stack is file /pub/twin-peaks/Hypercard_Stacks/TPBSCompanion.sit.Hqx.
This stands for Twin Peaks Bed Side Companion (version 2.0).  It is by
Mark F. Lewis, and may be freely distributed so long as it is not for
profit, and neither the stack nor the copyright notice is changed.  This
is a great stack, with nicely crossreferenced character relationships, plot
synopses for every episode, some credits, a list of continuity errors, and
other fun stuff.  It was obviously a labor of love for Mark, who did this
work purely from his own research, even though I offered to provide him
with suitable materials from a.t.tp and the ftp site.

The stack has been compressed using Stuffit 1.5.1 and then converted to
simple ASCII by BinHex 4.0.  Using those two applications in reverse
should recover the stack with no other manipulations required.  I believe
you will need HyperCard 2.0 or later to run the stack (and, of course,
a Mac).  There is also a README file in the Stuffit archive, that Mark
asked to be distributed with the stack; it is very short, and is a TeachText
document (TeachText is distributed free by Apple).


Enjoy!
-- -larryy@apple.com "You wouldn't recognize a *subtle plan* if it painted itself purple, and danced naked upon a harpsichord, singing, 'Subtle Plans are Here Again'." - Edmund Blackadder