HyperCard IIgs Tip
By Lorne Walton
Copyright (c) 1991 Apple Users' Group, Sydney
Republished from Applecations, a publication of the Apple Users' Group, Sydney, Australia.
Reprinted from Apples B.C. News, March 1991
Did somebody goof? When installing Hypercard GS on your hard drive the proper way, using the Installer program that comes on one of the 6 disks, you get to select the volume you would like to use for HyperCard, but the installer script is written to install only to your boot volume! If that's where you want HCGS to live, no problem. Otherwise, here are two simple solutions:
(1) Assuming that you have the luxury of a free 3.7MB on your boot volume, let the installer script do its thing, and then afterwards use a file copy program (Finder, ProSel 16's Utilities, or another program capable of copying resource forks) to move the new HyperCard folder, along with all of its contents, to its new residence. Finally, delete the copy that's on your boot volume.
(2) Make a backup copy of the "Installer & Tour Disk" first. Load the script file (a text file named HyperCardIIGS, found in the SCRIPTS folder of the disk) into AppleWorks as an ASCII TXT file, then replace all occurrences of the two character sequence, "*:" with "nothing". Still lost? Okay: start at the top of the AWP file, press Apple-R for replace, *:<Return> for the search string, <return> for the replacement string, and "Replace All". Finally do an Apple-P and Print the File as an ASCII Text File (with option 3, carriage returns) back to the same SCRIPTS folder.
By removing the "*:" characters, you're allowing the installation to go to the current volume (the one that you chose) instead of the boot (*) volume. Now run the installer: it works like a charm!

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