Re: Metamorphosax! (revisited)
Re: Metamorphosax! (revisited)
- Subject: Re: Metamorphosax! (revisited)
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 00:37:12 -0800
At 17:58 -0600 2/6/01, David Blache wrote:
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Yep - I say bring it on. I would hope these guys are considering moving
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most or all of their stuff to Mac OS X. I'm personally going to try to do
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what I can to port FindFile and other scripting additions to Mac OS X. Now
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is definitely a great time to let scripting addition authors know what
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features you need/want in Mac OS X.
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).
[For many purposes, a FindFile scriptable FBA could probably just convert
its parameters into a call to find and present the results.]
On Mac OS X FindFile FBA will (without forcing itself to run as the admin
user or root, which it certainly shouldn't) be unable to "see" files which
the account running it can't see due to not having suitable directory
permissions. That problem/benefit is already here in Mac OS 9 multiple
users.
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA