Re: Why is copying a file so hard?
Re: Why is copying a file so hard?
- Subject: Re: Why is copying a file so hard?
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:40:15 -0700
On Jun 21, 2005, at 7:28 PM, email@hidden wrote:
At 1:06 AM +0100 18/6/05, has wrote:
If you'd read the AppleScript documentation...
Helpful advice, but I've just spent an hour searching Apple's
support website for Applescript manuals.
Short answer:
See <http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/applescript/
resources.html>, in particular the link to the AppleScript Language
Guide <http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carbon/
interapplicationcomm/AppleScript/AppleScriptLangGuide/index.html>.
I'm always perplexed by people who say they can't find anything about
AppleScript, documentation or otherwise, on Apple's site, but then
I've been doing this for a while and know how to stroke search
engines the right way. What were you attempting to do? Seems pretty
straightforward to me -- search for "AppleScript" from www.apple.com,
and the first hit will be the dedicated AppleScript page, which has a
box labeled "Resources: links to documentation, instructional
materials, tools, training, and third-party websites."
Bear in mind that AppleScript is regarded as a developer tool, not a
user tool, so most of the technical documentation is actually on the
developer site. For example, searching for "AppleScript escape
character" from www.apple.com doesn't yield much, but if you click
the "search in developer site" (developer.apple.com), you'll get a
bunch.
Also, a handy Google tip (which also works from the Safari search
bar): you can limit the results to a particular domain by adding
"site:foobar.com". For instance, searching for "applescript escape
string literal" nets about 500 results; adding
"site:developer.apple.com" nets three, the first of which has most of
the answer right in the abstract.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript and Automator Engineering
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