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There are 32 messages totalling 860 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. gaea mirror site
2. ScriptWizard 1.0.1x41 updater
3. oops RE:gopher site (4)
4. Mail Delivery Status
5. Scripting the scriptable Finder (3)
6. Accessing a Disconnected Server (2)
7. Couple scripting questions... (3)
8. RE>>Accessing a Disconnected Server (2)
9. learning apple script
10. oops RE:gopher site
11. Accessing Repeating Fields in FileMaker Pro (2)
12. Forms & Eudora (2)
13. Docker: a Script for Duo/DuoDock users (2)
14. New version of Easy View on gaea
15. New version of Anarchie on gaea
16. Script examples for BBEdit 3.0?
17. Getting FileMaker Pro to find.... (2)
18. Data to Mail Question***
19. copy files for backup
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 22:15:46 -0500
From: Fred Terry <pfterry@LKS.CSI.COM>
Subject: Re: gaea mirror site
Desmond Sin asked....
>Is there a mirror site for gaea? Trying to access gaea through my SLIP
>account from Hong Kong, it takes forever just to get a directory listing.
Not to my knowledge.
pf
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 22:24:39 -0500
From: Fred Terry <pfterry@LKS.CSI.COM>
Subject: Re: ScriptWizard 1.0.1x41 updater
Charles Pelto asked...
>Is the updater to ScriptWizard available on AOL?
Yes, I think it is in the MacUtilities section.
pf
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 12:28:45 +1200
From: Owen Watson <owen@RSNZ.GOVT.NZ>
Subject: Re: oops RE:gopher site
>Oops kinda forgot 1 little detail the gophersite hehe
>gopher://comics.scs.unr.edu:8112/7%20?applescript
>.............KingShit
I got a LONG listing, including the AppleScript 1.1 extension - I thought
it was commercial software??
_________________________________________________________________________
Owen Watson, The Royal Society of NZ, PO Box 598, Wellington, New Zealand
Internet watson.o@rsnz.govt.nz Ph: +64 4 472 7421 Fax: +64 4 473 1841
The gateway to New Zealand science: http://www.rsnz.govt.nz/
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 08:24:08 GMT
From: Central Postmaster <SSW.POSTMSTR@TSOD.LMIG.COM>
Subject: Mail Delivery Status
***** Error in Mail Delivery *****
ROUTING ERROR
Recipients:
MSMAIL.MGR_SSW1@TSOD.LMIG.COM
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 21:21:19 -0700
From: "John W. Baxter" <jwbaxter@OLYMPUS.NET>
Subject: Re: Scripting the scriptable Finder
>2) Is the Addison-Wesley book on Finder Scripting up-to-date? That is, was
>it written for the Scriptable Finder or for the old one?
The "AppleScript Finder Guide English Dialect" is intended to be up to
date, and to describe the Scriptable Finder as it exists today--that is,
the script
tell application "Finder"
version
end tell
returns "1.2"
which is the version of the Finder Scripting Extension (with a note in the
book that in subsequent versions, the rather more useful Finder version
will be returned instead). There are a couple of other instances in which
futures are mentioned (such as the fact that "Finder" is not in the list of
running processes).
--John
--
jwbaxter@pt.olympus.net (John W. Baxter) Port Ludlow, WA
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 23:30:23 -0600
From: Steve Bryan <sbryan@MAROON.TC.UMN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Accessing a Disconnected Server
>Anyone know if System 7.5 would do this with the PowerTalk tools? Seems
>like that's supposed to provide a universal interface with appletalk
>servers, with one password. You "log in" to PowerTalk, then you don't
>have to provide passwords for individual servers. Anyone out there
>tried this?
>
>todd
Sure, the feature works fine. In fact it is a feature of PowerTalk that
pre-dates System 7.5 so you aren't dependent on the new system for this.
You just need to install PowerTalk and add the Novell server to your key
chain. Of course the down side is that eventually you'll forget your
various passwords.
Steve Bryan Internet: sbryan@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Sexton Software CompuServe: 76545,527
Minneapolis, MN 55415 Fax: (612) 929-1799
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 00:26:02 -0800
From: Preston Holmes <pholmes@UCSD.EDU>
Subject: Re: Scripting the scriptable Finder
>I've tried using it with Eudora
>Announcer...whether I choose "Notification On" or "Off", I always get the
>error dialog, as if it paid no attention to me, though Eudora _does_ launch
>the Announcer when it check the mail, but the Announcer never seems to
>receive the "<<event CSOmeNot>>" call, and fails to procede. Nothing is
>ever read to me, and a trap "return "Hello"" that I threw into the
>announcer right after the handler is triggered never gets returned. Is
>there some way I can check to see if Eudora Announcer is, in fact,
>receiving a "CSOmeNot"? Has anyone else gotten this to work?
I get it to work, but can't get Eudora not to notify the announcer, I've
added 'please notify ""' in a on quit handler to the announcer but still
Eudora notifys the Announcer.
I'm a bit confused about the difference between the Eudora command "please
notify" and the notify osax?? could somebody fill me in.
A little trick I put to use this weekend was to use the Script Tools
"speech" osax for debugging. Instead of dialog boxes the script tells me
what it is doing (even things like telling me when one subroutine ends
etc). I found it very useful to follow what was going on hidden from view!
-Preston
--
Preston Holmes (h)619-453-9209
Dept. of Neuroscience, UCSD
pholmes@ucsd.edu NeuroWeb: "http://salk.edu/NeuroWeb/"
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 07:25:15 -0400
From: John Schettino <js12@GTE.COM>
Subject: Re: Couple scripting questions...
>Sorry for the vague subject, but I couldn't come up with anything better...
>
>1) is it possible to have a variable resolve to a record label?
>
>This won't work:
>
>set Fred to "Wilma"
>set Barny to {Fred:85}
>Barny
>
>Result: {Fred:85}
You can use our new friend "run script"
set Fred to "Wilma"
set Barny to run script "{" & Fred & ":85}"
Barny
Result: {wilma:85}
>2) along the same lines, is there a way to 'compound' variable. Again as in:
No, you should use a list for this.
set variableList to {}
set aList to {1,2,3}
repeat with i from 1 to (count of aList)
set end of variableList to {i, i + 10}
end repeat
variableList
Result: {{1, 11}, {2, 12}, {3, 13}}
>3) The scriptable finder refuses to open a file more than once even if it
I'm not sure what you mean here... Can you post or send a code fragment?
- john
-----------------------------------------
js12@gte.com GTE Laboratories
John Schettino Waltham, MA
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 06:22:45 PDT
From: "Andrew T. Johnston" <atjohnst@APPLE.COM>
Subject: RE>>Accessing a Disconnected Server
Hi,
>[stuff deleted]
>>Occasionally, the connection to this server is disconnected after everyone
>>goes home and before the backup is suppoesd to take place.
>>
>>I know how to check for whether the connection is there, "list disk".
>>
>>However, I don't know how to re-establish the connection, which includes a
>>password, to save my FileMaker Pro data files.
>>
>>What is the call? If any. I'm using System 7.1 software.
>Anyone know if System 7.5 would do this with the PowerTalk tools?
[snip]
>Anyone out there tried this?
Yes, indeed. I've been doing this since PowerTalk was introduced in System
7 Pro.
Sign on to the remote volume in question. Make an alias. Unmount the volume.
Open the alias file, and answer "Yes" to the dialog that asks about adding
the service to your key chain. Keep the alias file in a known local folder.
With the scriptable Finder, the following script will do what you ask, as
long as your PowerTalk key chain is unlocked.
property remoteVolumeAlias : alias "Local HD:Known Folder:Remote Volume alias"
tell application "Finder" -- the scriptable one
get original item of alias file remoteVolumeAlias
end tell
Hopefully helpful,
Andrew
------------------
Andrew T. Johnston
Apple Canada, Inc.
atjohnst@apple.com
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 06:55:08 -0800
From: Kirk Stork <kastork@NPS.NAVY.MIL>
Subject: Re: oops RE:gopher site
>>Oops kinda forgot 1 little detail the gophersite hehe
>>gopher://comics.scs.unr.edu:8112/7%20?applescript
>>.............KingShit
>
>I got a LONG listing, including the AppleScript 1.1 extension - I thought
>it was commercial software??
>
Anyone else getting a connection refused at this site? I've tried
different times, Gopher and MacWeb...no luck.
Kirk Stork
kastork@nps.navy.mil
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 18:21:19 +0100
From: Judith Kertisz SUCHARD <suchard@CNAM.FR>
Subject: Re: learning apple script
Tao was the first commercially available book.
And I was happy to have baught it.
The begining was very clear: I loved it.
After that, became hacking, wich is ok, but
one can do a lot 'normal' things with AS,
without hacking first.
I would like to buy the second too, but:
what is new in it?
I have all books that I found on HyperCard too.
You always learn something, from each.
The problem is it ok for begining or not, that
is difficult to say to someone who had already
read all apple's literature before...
Anyone writing something explaining about applescript
objects? I have lots of exemples if needed.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 09:08:54 -0500
From: Fred Terry <pfterry@LKS.CSI.COM>
Subject: Re: oops RE:gopher site
Owen Watson commented.....
>>Oops kinda forgot 1 little detail the gophersite hehe
>>gopher://comics.scs.unr.edu:8112/7%20?applescript
>
>I got a LONG listing, including the AppleScript 1.1 extension - I thought
>it was commercial software??
It is, but a quick perusal of the listing will show you that it contains a
number of MacHTTP scripts. At one point, MacHTTP's author was talking about
licensing AppleScript for distribution with his program. That may have
happened.
There are a lot of interesting tidbits on this gopher. I can't tell if the
discussions are from the MacHTTP mailing list or AppleLink.
pf
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 11:14:25 -0400
From: Mark Hadfield <hadfield@RESUNIX.RI.SICKKIDS.ON.CA>
Subject: Re: Accessing Repeating Fields in FileMaker Pro
>The problem is that when I try to get to the second row/repetition of the
>repeating fields in the contiguous field data file I can't find the "object"
>that is the first cell of the second row/repetition.
>
>Is there a special way of addressing repeating fields that facilitates such a
>Get/Set Data call?
>
>If so, what is it?
Filemaker seems to treat repeating fields as one object. If you 'Get Cell
"X"' and cell x is a repeating field, filemaker will return all the values
of the repeating fields to applescript as a list. This is why applescript
is a saviour for dealing with repeating fields. Since filemaker has few
mechanisms for accessing repeating field data, applescript comes to the
rescue by allowing you to grab the contents of a repeating field,
manipulate it and stuff it back in (or into another database).
Caveats:
1. Older versions of Filemaker Pro 2.1 would repeat values stuffed into
repeating fields via applescript ie. repeating field with ten iteration -
you stuff in two values - those values repeat across all 10 iterations.
Fix: stuff your applescript list with null "" string for all null values.
2. I've had ongoing crashing problems stuffing information into repeating
fields. I have tried several computers and different version of FM and get
similar problems. I have notified Claris but have not heard back from
them.
Mark Hadfield
hadfield@sickkids.on.ca
Mark Hadfield
hadfield@sickkids.on.ca
The Hosptial For Sick Children
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 14:58:26 +1200
From: Owen Watson <owen@RSNZ.GOVT.NZ>
Subject: Forms & Eudora
Has anyone done any forms work that involves linking Eudora with a
database? Or is the feeling that Eudora is not suitable?
_________________________________________________________________________
Owen Watson, The Royal Society of NZ, PO Box 598, Wellington, New Zealand
Internet watson.o@rsnz.govt.nz Ph: +64 4 472 7421 Fax: +64 4 473 1841
The gateway to New Zealand science: http://www.rsnz.govt.nz/
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 09:55:04 -0500
From: Frank Concannon <frank-concannon@UOKHSC.EDU>
Subject: Re: oops RE:gopher site
>Anyone else getting a connection refused at this site? I've tried
>different times, Gopher and MacWeb...no luck.
>
> Kirk Stork
>kastork@nps.navy.mil
I cant get connected either.
Frank C.
R&E
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 09:59:43 -0800
From: Preston Holmes <pholmes@UCSD.EDU>
Subject: Re: Couple scripting questions...
>>3) The scriptable finder refuses to open a file more than once even if it
>I'm not sure what you mean here... Can you post or send a code fragment?
Well I'm not sure what I was doing, I think my problem was:
tell application "Finder"
open file ((choose file with prompt "choose") as string)
end tell
which doesn't work and when run twice gets the "already open error"
the solution was to use the syntax:
open file (choose file with prompt "choose")
no problems,
Thanks for the help with the other Q's
-Preston
--
Preston Holmes (h)619-453-9209
Dept. of Neuroscience, UCSD
pholmes@ucsd.edu NeuroWeb: "http://salk.edu/NeuroWeb/"
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 10:00:05 -0800
From: Preston Holmes <pholmes@UCSD.EDU>
Subject: Docker: a Script for Duo/DuoDock users
I spent much of this weekend writing my first script of any real use (just
finished 'the handbook', proof that AS has power for the novice).
Docker keeps track of icons for the builtin screen and a dock screen.
I just put it in the Inocming directory on gaea and it should be in the
scripts directory sometime soon (Thanks Fred!).
"Docker.as.sit.hqx"
I would love people to give it a try before I make a general
announcement to the powerbook Newsgroup. As a new scripter I tried to make
it readable to other new scriptors (because I learned so much by reading
other's scripts). More detailed info can be found in the README, below is
the introduction:
What is the Docker script?
Like many people I have grown to love the Duo/DuoDock system. A full
fledged desktop combined with one of the most portable portables. Also
like most Mac users I have a bit more than the "Trash" and disk(s) on my
desktop ;-) but the Duo does not recognize what the dimensions of the
screen are when in or out of a dock. The excellent shareware program
"Dockernaut" by Steve Martin (martin@metronet.com) can control much of the
behavior of Duos by keeping separate preference files for each docking
state, but the "Finder" preferences only hold the location of the "Trash"
icon, everything else gets shoved around by the changing screen sizes.
That's why I wrote this little script. Docker keeps track of your favorite
icon placement for two different screen sizes.
-Preston
--
Preston Holmes (h)619-453-9209
Dept. of Neuroscience, UCSD
pholmes@ucsd.edu NeuroWeb: "http://salk.edu/NeuroWeb/"
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 13:20:03 -0500
From: Fred Terry <pfterry@LKS.CSI.COM>
Subject: Re: Docker: a Script for Duo/DuoDock users
>Docker keeps track of icons for the builtin screen and a dock screen.
>I just put it in the Inocming directory on gaea and it should be in the
>scripts directory sometime soon (Thanks Fred!).
>"Docker.as.sit.hqx"
You'll find Preston's script at
ftp://gaea.kgs.ukans.edu/applescript/scripts/Docker.as.sit.hqx
Have fun.
pf
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 09:00:38 -0800
From: Kee Nethery +1 510 843 6140 <kee@KAGI.COM>
Subject: Re: Forms & Eudora
>Has anyone done any forms work that involves linking Eudora with a
>database? Or is the feeling that Eudora is not suitable?
I've been building a mailed forms processor to database kinda thing and
I've found Eudora to be the only mail package that seems to work as
advertised. So, I'd say that Eudora is suited for this kind of application.
Mine is a HyperCard front end, driving Eudora, talking to a Butler DAL
database via the DataScript translator (AppleScript to DAL). Seems to work
quite well.
Kee Nethery
_________________________________________________________________
Kagi Engineering, 1442-A Walnut #362, Berkeley, CA 94709-1405 USA
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 12:34:10 -0700
From: Glenn Massarano <gmass@CCNET.COM>
Subject: Re: Accessing a Disconnected Server
> Where I am at, there is a nightly requirement to back up all the data files
> to a central server so that the Novell Administrator can save all the key
> files to tape.
>
> Occasionally, the connection to this server is disconnected after everyone
> goes home and before the backup is suppoesd to take place.
>
> I know how to check for whether the connection is there, "list disk".
> > However, I don't know how to re-establish the connection, which includes a
> password, to save my FileMaker Pro data files.
>
> What is the call? If any. I'm using System 7.1 software.
>
i believe there is a "MountVol" scripting addition that will do this. i
have been using this to mount a server volume with a password over appletalk
and system 7.1.
-------------------
glenn massarano
gmass@ccnet.com
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 09:05:00 +1200
From: "Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University, Hamilton,
NZ" <LDO@WAIKATO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: Scripting the scriptable Finder
"John W. Baxter" <jwbaxter@OLYMPUS.NET> writes:
>tell application "Finder"
> version
>end tell
>
>returns "1.2"
My copy returns "1.1".
Lawrence D'Oliveiro fone: +64-7-856-2889
Info & Tech Services Division fax: +64-7-838-4066
University of Waikato electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz
Hamilton, New Zealand 37^ 47' 26" S, 175^ 19' 7" E, GMT+12:00
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 21:51:38 +0000
From: Neil Christie <neil@CHRISTIE.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: New version of Easy View on gaea
By now the version of Easy View on gaea should have been updated from v2.44
to v2.50. Easy View by Akif Eyler is a setext reader for tidbits, info-mac
digest etc and I find it very useful.
This new version makes the following changes, taken from user manual:
>EV 2.5 August 94
>* An extension menu is added for using external code segments
> (Compatible with BBEdit)
>* Font and Size menus are made hierarchical
>* Cancel key does not crash after "Do you want to save?" dialog
The new versions include support for the speech manager, word count and
fetching an URL. Keyboard shortcuts can be added to any extension.
>This program can be distributed freely on any medium, for non-commercial
>>purposes, along with the enclosed documents. It may not be sold or
>exchanged >for profit.
You should be able to find the new version at:
ftp://gaea.kgs.ukans.edu:/applescript/addons/easy-view-250.hqx
Happy scripting, Neil.
Neil Christie, 15 |Voice/Fax: 0131 229 6507
14 West Castle Road |E-Mail: Neil@christie.demon.co.uk
Edinburgh |-------------------------------------
EH10 5AU |Apple Macintosh Centris 660AV 8/230 CD.
Scotland |System 7.1, running PPP on a 14.4K modem
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 09:35:00 +1200
From: "Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University, Hamilton,
NZ" <LDO@WAIKATO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: Couple scripting questions...
Preston Holmes <pholmes@UCSD.EDU> writes:
>tell application "Finder"
> open file ((choose file with prompt "choose") as string)
>end tell
>
>which doesn't work and when run twice gets the "already open error"
I copied and pasted that script into a Script Editor window, and it worked
just fine. I chose an MPW Shell text file, and it opened in MPW.
Thought: do you recall exactly which application gave you the "already open"
error? My hunch is, it's not the Finder, but the application that was
trying to open the file you chose.
Lawrence D'Oliveiro fone: +64-7-856-2889
Info & Tech Services Division fax: +64-7-838-4066
University of Waikato electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz
Hamilton, New Zealand 37^ 47' 26" S, 175^ 19' 7" E, GMT+12:00
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 22:15:05 +0000
From: Neil Christie <neil@CHRISTIE.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: New version of Anarchie on gaea
I have put Anarchie 1.3.1 into incoming on gaea so it should turn up in
scriptableapps soon. It adds a guide file for system 7.5 and a few other
bits and pieces. Full docs are included. It is a binhexed stuff-it archive.
Anarchie is a full scriptable and recordable ftp program. It costs $10 and
is shareware and by Peter N Lewis.
I downloaded it from:
ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/computing/systems/mac/umich/util/comm/anarchie1.31.s
it.hqx.gz
Hope you like it, Neil.
Neil Christie, 15 |Voice/Fax: 0131 229 6507
14 West Castle Road |E-Mail: Neil@christie.demon.co.uk
Edinburgh |-------------------------------------
EH10 5AU |Apple Macintosh Centris 660AV 8/230 CD.
Scotland |System 7.1, running PPP on a 14.4K modem
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 17:28:52 -0400
From: Clinton MacDonald <clint@PHOENIX.PRINCETON.EDU>
Subject: Re: Script examples for BBEdit 3.0?
Friends:
Here is my SECOND BBEdit AppleScript, and this one actually does
something useful :-). Regards to the kind assistance of Sean Elfstrom
<selfstro@CS.Trinity.Edu>, whose "Fix Headers in AOL" script I boldly
plagerized. This is an applet which opens one or more MACSCRIPT Digest,
finds the date of the first entry, then copies that date line to the first
line of the file. This is useful when viewing the Digest using EasyView,
which doesn't show the header text before the first date (by the way,
EasyView would be a strong candidate for scripting). It's pretty cool that
it even works:
-----(included script)-----
on open (fileList)
repeat with sourceFile in fileList
tell application "BBEdit 3.0"
activate
open sourceFile as alias
tell front window
Find "Date: "
Select Current Line
set theHeaders to Selected Text
Go To Line 0
Insert Text "--------------------" & return
Insert Text theHeaders
Close with saving
end tell
end tell
end repeat
tell application "BBEdit 3.0" to quit
end open
Some questions still plague me, though. For instance, BBEdit has two
commands, "Select Current Line" and "Select Full Lines" -- are they
identical? Further, it seems impossible to select more than one line at a
time, unless they contain contiguous lines of text, wherein it is
considered a paragraph ("Select Paragraph"). What gives?
Clint
Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | clint@phoenix.princeton.edu
Howard Hughes Medical Institute | cmacdonald@watson.princeton.edu
Department of Molecular Biology | 609/258-5993
Princeton, NJ 08544-1014 | 609/258-1704 (FAX)
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 18:21:30 -0300
From: Bill Hutten <bhutten@FOX.NSTN.NS.CA>
Subject: Getting FileMaker Pro to find....
Sorry for the mega-newbie question, but.....
How the heck do I get FileMaker Pro to find things? I want to do something like
set foo to field "bar" where field "foo" = "newbie"
and the above don't work.......also, how can I tell if I didnt find
anything, or if I found more than one match?
thanx in advance
- bill
| Bill Hutten - bhutten@fox.nstn.ns.ca
| 6411 Cloverdale Rd. Halifax, NS Canada B3L 2N6 (902) 453 2482
| "Hard to love, when you're bracing for impact." - Martin Amis
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 17:31:00 CDT
From: "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."
<yosus@MCS.COM>
Subject: Re: oops RE:gopher site
>>>Oops kinda forgot 1 little detail the gophersite hehe
>>>gopher://comics.scs.unr.edu:8112/7%20?applescript
>>>.............KingShit
>Anyone else getting a connection refused at this site? I've tried
>different times, Gopher and MacWeb...no luck.
Kirk Stork
kastork@nps.navy.mil
I think you can still sneak into this site by using a veronica gopher
search @ the url gopher://comics.scs.unr.edu:8112/7%20 and typing in
"applescript".
There is also gopher://userserve.ucsd.edu/11ftp%3aPublic%3aAppleScript%3a
so there............................KingShit
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 18:54:07 EDT
From: Charles Bruce Pelto <CPelto@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: Accessing Repeating Fields in FileMaker Pro
I pursued the advice offered about dealing with repeating fields in FileMaker
Pro...
....and yes they are treated like LISTs.
However, as with the caveats, there are some problems....
Even the most recent version of FMP, 2.1v3, suffers from the problem of
repetative implanting. Alex!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!!
Haven't encountered the crashing problem mentioned just yet.
More to follow....
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 15:53:52 PDT
From: Joe Scripter <MikeL@EWORLD.COM>
Subject: Data to Mail Question***
Can anyone help with this question someone has asked me?
Thanks
============
My company used to have its telephone extension list in Microsoft Word and
Excel formats (it was 4 seperate documents), then would QuickMail them to our
users and they would have to print it out. I felt this was both financially
and time wasteful, so I worked up a solution... I started my first
AppleScript. I am using FileMaker Pro (2.1v3), AppleScript (1.1), Scriptable
Text Editor (1.1), ResEdit 2.1.3 and Display DA 2.1.
I have FileMaker do all the text formatting then I have a script that exports
final info to a text file, that's when AppleScript takes over and formats the
font and size and moves the text files into stationary pad files.
I manually have to copy and paste the text into Display DA using ResEdit
2.1.3. I would like to automate this too or find some other solution.
Anysuggestions?
All of our Macs are running System 7.0.1, 7.1, or 7.1.1 with the AppleScript
components to run (not create) scripts. I do not want to have to purchase
any programs (on the user end) to do this.
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 15:55:00 PDT
From: Joe Scripter <MikeL@EWORLD.COM>
Subject: copy files for backup
Any suggestions??
Thanks
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using finderLib it was
tell finderLib
copyFiles "MyServer:Desktop Folder:" to alias
"MainServer:GROUPS:SHARED:Desktop Folder:"
end tell
You see, if the MainServer, selected via EtherNet isn't on
MyServer/computer's desktop, I'm dead in the water. The backup, scheduled
for between 7 pm and 12 am, when the Novell Administrator does their backup
to tape for off-site storage, I'm gone and the backup has failed.
How do I check if the access is open and if not, how do I open it. Note: It
requires a password.
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 15:56:05 PDT
From: Joe Scripter <MikeL@EWORLD.COM>
Subject: Re: RE>>Accessing a Disconnected Server
I have a similar need to transfer files to a remote server. If the server is
on the desktop, using an alias of the server works fine. However, if the
server is not on a desktop, a prompt appears requiring the password. Is there
any way to provide the password with AppleScript?
Thanks,
-MJL
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 22:17:41 -0400
From: "Brian V. Hughes" <hades@COOS.DARTMOUTH.EDU>
Subject: Re: Getting FileMaker Pro to find....
--Bill Hutten wrote:
>
>How the heck do I get FileMaker Pro to find things? I want to do something like
>
>set foo to field "bar" where field "foo" = "newbie"
Open the FM Pro dictionary with the Script Editor and take a look at
the Show command. This is the one that performs a find. It's intent is
to "show" all records matching the request you give it. For instance,
you particular request would look something like this:
Show every record (whose cell "foo" is equal to "newbie")
-Hades
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