Re: X annoyances
Re: X annoyances
- Subject: Re: X annoyances
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 23:08:36 -0800
On 2/3/02 10:10 PM, "Timothy Bates" <email@hidden> wrote:
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<rant>
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I am beginning to really hate how the X compiler changes app names.
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First there is this horrid business of changing "Finder" to "Finder.app",
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now I see that "Finder" has been replaced with a call to "AEServer" - which,
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the script tells me when I run it, "is not running". How hard can it be to
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leave Finder as Finder? Especially when most script creators are going to be
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runnign X, and, for the next year or 2, most users are running 9?
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tell application "AEServer"
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if exists file archiveToCreate then
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delete file archiveToCreate
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end if
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end tell
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Finally, how hard can it be to create .DS files (and the other X caching
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junk which are invisible on MacOS 9? Users hate seeing this Unix sh*t on
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their disks - it sounds like a virus to most people.
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</rant>
Tim,
You were mentioning on another list we're both on that you seem to have an
OS that, in some parts , dates from OS 10.0. this must be a facet of it.
In OS 10.1.2 genuine, AS 1.8.2b, "Finder" does not change to Finder.app,
does not change to AEServer. It stays as Finder:
set archiveToCreate to alias ((path to desktop as string) & "Test")
tell application "Finder"
if exists file archiveToCreate then
delete file archiveToCreate
end if
end tell
I think it's time for you to do your clean OS 10.1 install. You have some
nice things to look forward to. ;-)
--
Paul Berkowitz
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