Re: Entourage X script keeps growing
Re: Entourage X script keeps growing
- Subject: Re: Entourage X script keeps growing
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:25:37 -0700
At 14:16 -0400 8/14/2002, Arthur J. Knapp wrote:
>
Variables defined at the top-level of a script do seem to be saved, (which
>
is pretty ridiculous, given that you cannot then access them when re-running
>
the script).
That sort of thing is an Apple tradition. It goes back at least to 1984 in
the Mac side of the business, in the form of carefully writing the
clipboard contents to the Clipboard file at shutdown, and then ignoring the
file at startup.
Disks were smaller then but so were clipboard contents, usually. ;-)
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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