Re: Admin: a suggestion on the script corruption problem.
Re: Admin: a suggestion on the script corruption problem.
- Subject: Re: Admin: a suggestion on the script corruption problem.
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 02:52:43 -0800
On 2/17/01 12:56 AM, "Richard 23" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> A concern I have is: Many of us receive this list on digest. How
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> would this affect/work for digest subscribers?
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Sheesh! I've been plugging my "Convert Script" tool for months now
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and I'm still the only one using it. It preprocesses scripts so that
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they survive the trip through the server and are still as readable or
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unreadable as they were prior to preprocessing.
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Again, read about it and/or download the current version by going to
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<http://homepage.mac.com/richard23/docs/ConvertScript2.html>
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I have most of the next version done but haven't seen it as a priority
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since I'm the only one using it!
He's right. He's done it already - you can all stop. I've just been trying
it out and it works great, and automatic -- either direction: from mangled
or mangle-proof-encoded (<< >>) to real, and from real to
mangle-proof-encoded.
Newbies will still be totally baffled until/if they can be persuaded to use
it. People will still go on innocently sending in genuine code and others
will be baffled why the code they paste into editors doesn't work. But for
regulars here, Richard's script does the trick very well (even if you
occasionally have to step over some of his idiomatic quixotic
interpolations).
Well done, richard! Until Chris Nebel's new ASCII-7 AppleScript is released
(talk about cart before the horse: changing the language as a solution for a
mailing list's illiterate server!), this is a real help here.
--
Paul Berkowitz