Re: newbie question
Re: newbie question
- Subject: Re: newbie question
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 06:42:11 -0800
On 3/1/03 12:14 AM, "Emmanuel" <email@hidden> wrote:
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At 3:38 PM -0800 28/02/03, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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> So for the particular question asked by the originator here - tell by
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> variable - you simply don't need raw codes at all any more. You can just
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> forget about them.
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I'm not familiar with "using terms from". I suppose that the scripts
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that use raw codes are still more portable than scripts using "using
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terms from" since they are more resistant to compilation on a machine
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where the app is not running, aren't they?
I guess so, if you're really still writing scripts to be used in OS 8,
that's still true. Aside from maintaining some older scripts, I'm writing
now only for OS X, so it's no longer a concern of mine in new scripts.
'using terms from' works fine, even if someone wants to re-compile my script
for reasons of their own. (Frankly, if any user wants to edit and re-compile
one of my scripts, he or she is most likely to be a scripter who can cope,
in any case. My scripts come with many user preferences and options built
in, so there's no need for regular users to edit them.) And people including
'do shell script' in their scripts are by definition writing only for OS X,
so 'using terms from' should not present any sort of problem for them,
should it?
--
Paul Berkowitz
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