Re: Entourage 'import' command
Re: Entourage 'import' command
- Subject: Re: Entourage 'import' command
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:35:11 -0800
- Envelope-to: email@hidden
At 6:54 -0800 1/16/2003, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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On 1/16/03 3:47 AM, "christian vick" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> I have Finder folders with thousands of single EA messages. I try to import
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> them (without drag&drop!) using the import command of EA, but had no luck.
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> The dictionary says:
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> import: Import data into Entourage
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> import anything -- the item to import
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> [to reference] -- where to import the data
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> Result: reference
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> I would expect it so, but it doesn't work:
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> import alias "disk:folder:file" to folder "temp"
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> I think i hate dictionary entries which says "anything". I think i vote that
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> "Example(s)" becomes a standard entry in AppleScript dictionarys!
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'anything' just means that the _syntax_ does not limit the definition to
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particular AppleScript classes. It doesn't mean it will actually import a
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pair of old socks, for example. I agree with you that AppleScript
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dictionaries are generally too sparse. And they have never included
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examples. Entourage's dictionary is not a particularly bad one in this
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regard, in fact it's rather typical. For a _bad_ one at definitions, go take
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a look at Excel.
There are basically two choices when one has to show more than one kind of
thing in the dictionary
import integer -- oh, by the way you can also import string
or
import anything -- as long as it's integer or string
Classic Finder went the first way, listing only one of the kinds of things
it accepts to identify an item (without the handy commentary about there
being other types that work). Entourage goes the second way, but without
the restricting comment. Neither is "right" but the aeut/aete format
doesn't allow "right."
--John (who first said this in MACSCRPT in 1993)
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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