Re: Re: Problems using Tanaka's osax
Re: Re: Problems using Tanaka's osax
- Subject: Re: Re: Problems using Tanaka's osax
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 01:39:12 EDT
At 13:28 -0400 06/21/2001, I wrote:
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>I love Tanaka's osax! Motoyuki, I believe your osax is still written for
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>680x0, and you have previously indicated it will not be updated for PPC.
Any
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>reconsiderations? I would love to have MT parse CGI, MT decode URL,
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>MT encode URL, and MT pack CGI running on OSX.
And Motoyuki Tanaka helpfully responded:
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I've been learning MacOS X since Public Beta was released (I'm reading
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"Learning Cocoa" now). I think OS X is very exciting OS, but I wonder about
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value of AppleScript (AppleEvent) on MacOS X (besides current imperfect
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implementation). For now, I'll learn and search OS X. If I get the conviction
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that porting my osax into OS X is not meaningless, I'll do my best.
That's all we can ask. If you want to "cut your teeth" (American idiom for
practice) by creating a PPC native version for MacOS 8/9, that would be
welcomed with glee, joy, thanks and praise (and a PayPal tip, if desired)!
The reason this is so important to me is that your osax, and those 4 commands
specifically, are at the core of a (0 Applescript) shopping cart/database
system which has generated (and hopefully will continue to generate) a
significant portion of my income. Without Tanaka's osax, I may go very
hungry. And as critical as those commands are, I have fine tuned the rest of
the code to the point where those commands are the primary speed bottlenecks,
so PPC is eagerly desired.
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>Separate issue. This gives an out of memory error:
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> set x to MT pack CGI {{"a","1"},{"b",""}}
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>A bug perhaps? I would love a fix.
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It's stupid bug!! I'll fix it and release the new version soon (I hope
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coming weekend gives me enough time for programming).
Thanks! I actually had to write a "prepack" handler to replace blanks with
hyphens. It will be great to get that out of the code.
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Motoyuki Tanaka Fukui Prefectural University
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email@hidden Faculty of Economics
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http://mtlab.ecn.fpu.ac.jp/
Jeff Baumann
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