Re: this Remote Access in 9.1 thing...
Re: this Remote Access in 9.1 thing...
- Subject: Re: this Remote Access in 9.1 thing...
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:28:40 -0800
At 22:52 +0000 1/26/01, Charles Arthur wrote:
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Now, I haven't updated to 9.1 - squeezed for space on the Wallstreet. But
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I'm mystified as to why the Remote Access scriptability is gone, as
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everyone reports.
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Surely as AS has advanced, more and more of the system has become
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scriptable. The startup disk panel! The location manager! Etc.
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So why has Remote Access's simple, easy-to-follow scriptability been torn
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out, to be replaced with the larger and much more complex Network Setup
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Scripting? What's the deal? Is it something to do with OSX? Chris N? Anyone?
When OpenTransport came out (the horrible System 7 version which was
released prematurely because hardware which needed it "had to" be released
for an artificial deadline (MacWorld), OpenTransport used the Apple Shared
Library Manager, which even then was deprecated and known to be going away.
The OpenTransport version in Mac OS 9.1 finally (and mercifully) does not
use Apple Shared Library Manager.
The old remote access scripting addition counted on the Apple Shared
Library Manager, therefore it is broken starting with Mac OS 9.1. Since
there was a replacement available (which has been around for a long time:
since Mac OS 8.5) I concur with Apple's decision not to rewrite the old
thing to work with Mac OS 9.1. The engineering hours were better spent
elsewhere.
Most of this (except for my commentary about the premature birth of Open
Transport) is in the tech note which describes Mac OS 9.1.
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA