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Re: Beginner here


  • Subject: Re: Beginner here
  • From: Simon Forster <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 10:14:52 +0100

On Thursday, May 23, 2002, at 09:24 AM, Christopher Nebel wrote:

Assuming you're talking about cron, it's not recommended for use with AppleScripts. Because of how AppleScript and cron work, there are some serious restrictions on what you can do with a cron-fired script -- for instance, you can't send commands to any running application.

Chris

Why do you keep on asserting this? I have a crontab that...

...ah.

Light comes on.

That'll be why my controller AppleScript wouldn't fire up the couple of AppleScript apps I had written for importing data from external sources. So I have cron starting a shell script which fires up the first AppleScript app, waits until it's finished its doings and then starts the next app.

Just goes to show, tell me something often enough and eventually it'll sink in :-)

Thanks Chris

Simon Forster
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