Re: path to over eppc?
Re: path to over eppc?
- Subject: Re: path to over eppc?
- From: Gary Lists <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 09:05:43 -0400
On or about 6/8/03 10:19 PM, matt neuburg wrote:
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On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 08:25:55 +0100, John Delacour <email@hidden> said:
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> At 9:50 am -0700 7/6/03, matt neuburg wrote:
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>> beep works over eppc (the remote machine beeps). say
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>> works over eppc (the remote machine talks). Why doesn't
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>> path to work over eppc? When I try it, the result is a
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>> pathname on the local machine. m.
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> Because path is an OS X new thing and won't exist in any osax or app
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> on the Classic set-up?
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There's no Classic in this story. The two machines are essentially
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identical Mac OS X machines. Let me put it more strongly. The status of
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the phrases "beep" and "say" and "display dialog" and "path to" is the
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same - they are all scripting addition commands. But in the following
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script:
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tell app "Finder" of machine "eppc://little-white-duck.local"
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beep
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say "howdy"
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display dialog "howdy"
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path to system folder
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end
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the first three commands are executed on the remote machine, but "path to"
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is executed on the local machine. I need to know why. Please note, I don't
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want a workaround; I want an explanation. m.
Despite the sort of pointlessness of that position ;) I'm going to offer a
non-X-specific idea that struck me while reading Paul B's reply.
Can you place a script applet somewhere on the target machines and ask that
applet to get the paths you need and pass them back?
Then, if Paul's logical suggestion is the case, the context of 'path to'
would not be ambiguous (although to AS it's not ambiguous at all...)
JAT,
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Gary
MacOS 9.1.2 / "9 is Fine"
OMM: osa:AS 1.8.3 / osa:JS 1.0.3 / FM 55 / BB601 / Smile 188
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