-- card: 36752 from stack: in.0
-- bmap block id: 0
-- flags: 0000
-- background id: 3797
-- name: 


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From: beloin@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Ron Beloin)

Date: 10 Mar 88 16:00:51 GMT

>  put the number of cards into numCards
>  repeat with i = 1 to numCards
>    go card i of stack "sourceStack"
>    put field "f1" into f1contents
>    - and so on
>  go stack "destination" - has one card to begin with, with fields, etc
>  if i > the number of cards then
>    doMenu "New Card"

now, the new card is card number 2, since you started on card 1...

>  end if

>  go card i 
this takes you to the last card, not the new one...

and this overwrites previous data...
So it had nothing to do with compacting the stack. I couldn't see what
was wrong until I played with it a bit. You can skip the if statement
above and just make a new card and stuff away..



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