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: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 14:37:44 -0800
At 9:56 -0800 2/16/01, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
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Thanks very much to Brad Giesbrecht for suggesting this. I wish I'd thought
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of it, but I want to put this forward as a possible solution to the script
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corruption issues and see what you think.
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Brad's suggestion was to create a tool that would take an AppleScript and
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convert it into a form that isn't corrupted by the list server. That script
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could then be posted safely, and that tool (or a mirror one) could then be
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used to decode it on the other side to be used.
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Since the scripts are already mostly readable (the problem are the
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macOS-specific characters not part of the standard ascii character set),
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this wouldn't impact the readability of posted code significantly, either.
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It could even be written in AppleScript. The translations wouldn't be that
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hard, and it'd give us a good workaround for the problem quickly.
Sounds good, as does the simple use of \nnn escapes mentioned in a later
message.
If this comes to pass, please make sure the
mpw-dev
list (which needs it more than we do) is made aware of it. Writing the MPW
script (pair) would fall into the lap of one of them.
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA