Re: I want to compare two AppleWorks files
Re: I want to compare two AppleWorks files
- Subject: Re: I want to compare two AppleWorks files
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 23:50:39 +0100
At 16:00 +0100 20/01/01, David Bell wrote:
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Hello,
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I teach a class on AppleWorks and my students have assignments from a book
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to which I have "answers" in the form of actual computer files.
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What I would LOVE to do is have the students submit their completed work
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via email, with a particular file naming scheme, and then have a folder
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script which compares the students' file against the master and then emails
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the student back with a list of "These things are wrong" and "These things
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are things to look for." The file would then be moved to an archive
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location so I could track how many times they worked on a particular
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assignment.
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One possible caveat: the school only has copies of AW5, the master files
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were done in CW4 and the system that I would be doing the corrections on is
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AW6.
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For email, I'm using Eudora Pro 3.0.
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Is this possible? I think so, but I'm still learning just what AppleScript
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is capable of.
I think so, too. Have a first idea by giving an eye to the respective
dictionaries of your apps.
Emmanuel