Re: Metamorphosax! (revisited)
Re: Metamorphosax! (revisited)
- Subject: Re: Metamorphosax! (revisited)
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 10:22:05 -0800
Subject:
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>>>I know that the terminal window will scare many Mac OS X users (some of
whom SHOULD be scared, but those probably shouldn't use AppleScript
either), but in the case of FindFile, it will be difficult to better the
traditional Unix find command (and particularly the GNU modernization of
it).
That very common perception, in a nut shell, is why I think there's a lot
of foot dragging in getting AppleScript into OSX.
The fact that an AppleScript command can be done from the terminal window
using a Unix command is irrelevant.
AppleScripts are designed to run independent of user interaction and
autonomously. The terminal window is a user interface item. And currently
scripting the terminal window with appleScript doesn't cut it.( least not
in the Beta)
Developers (both in and out of Apple) need to understand the difference
between AppleScript commands and the Terminal Window. They are not
interchangeable.
ES