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 09:23:37 -0800
On 2/17/01 8:35 AM, "cheshirekat" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Well done, richard! Until Chris Nebel's new ASCII-7 AppleScript is released
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> (talk about cart before the horse: changing the language as a solution for a
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> mailing list's illiterate server!), this is a real help here.
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> --
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> Paul Berkowitz
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Just out of curiosity, since I'm not a newbie and really haven't had a
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need (I might be more inclined to if the text didn't require excess
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fiddling) to copy any scripts from the messages lately, is the script an
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application? Which email clients will it work with, or does it utilize
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clipboard text or text files?
It uses the clipboard. you paste the result wherever you want it. It doesn't
do any automatic replacing of its own, and you don't lose anything. Your
original email stays exactly as it was. (I pasted into a Smile Text window
myself, but I could just as easily have pasted it into a new email message
in the app where I was. It won't paste into the actual email received
message in question without my enabling "Edit" there, which i could also do
if i really wanted to, I suppose. It's good that I can't do it
automatically.)
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I think, as Richard has observed, people just aren't overly excited about
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going through multiple steps to make the included scripts and snippets
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useable/readable or they might have already been using Richard's convert
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script.
Correct, I'm sure. But there's nothing to it.
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Also, many people are uncomfortable using scripts from unknown or
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barely known sources. I know that it's been many many months since I've
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used someone else's script without checking out the source. If I find the
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source cryptic, obfuscated and difficult to follow in short time, I
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simply won't bother with it. (I'm not saying this is the case with
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Richard's script since I admittedly haven't taken the time to check it
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out)
Check it out.
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With that said, I can't imagine what a newbie might be thinking when told
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they will need to download and utilize a script without prior details of
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where and how to utilize it.
Correct.
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What about those people that still have
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email-only internet usage?
Correct.
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What about people that have limited time and
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have to go through multiple steps to even be able to use the mentioned
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script?
There's not really many "multiple steps". Select and copy the email text.
Call Richard's script from OSA menu (add a keyboard shortcut if you want to)
and paste it into any window that receives text. That's it. For the other
direction, select and copy your real script, call Richard's text from OSA
menu, and paste into email.
**You don't have to remember to do anything to show which direction you're
going. The script figures it out. Just call the script. He also has safety
features: if there's any doubt about whether something is a real "<" or
comma, he puts in an alert to you to check for yourself.
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I'm just tossing out some food for thought. I think it's great for the
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ASUsers list community that Richard gererously made the script available
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to all. Personally, I've just been trying to wait patiently for the list
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server stuff to be fixed. It's irritating to me that the list is forcing
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us to deal with the limitations, but since there are other things in life
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that are currently much more irritating to deal with, I prefer to spend
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my energy utilizing other resources like other mailing lists that don't
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have the problem. If there is a particular script that I must have and am
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unable to unmangle quickly, I would privately email the party that
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provided it. Most poeple here really are friendly and don't seem to mind
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an occasional personal request. Or run over and pinch WIK for help.
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If Cal IS going to make another general AppleScript list available, I'd
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also be willing to participate in that list.
It's already available and works perfectly. I tested that too. I'm "on" it,
in a virtual sense. But nobody is using it yet. Too many choices. Unless the
main list were going to be closed down, which it isn't, no one wants to
actually leave it. So I imagine that the new one won't be utilized much even
though it works absolutely perfectly.
I do wish someone would explain why Apple chose Mac-hating servers to begin
with, but I imagine that whoever authorized them didn't even think or know
of the consequences. At least, I hope not. I don't suppose we'll ever know.
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Paul Berkowitz