Re: To Matt: Problem Sending AppleScripts as Text: The Resource Fork
Re: To Matt: Problem Sending AppleScripts as Text: The Resource Fork
- Subject: Re: To Matt: Problem Sending AppleScripts as Text: The Resource Fork
- From: "Jonathan Levi, M.D." <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 18:01:12 -0400
At 10:21 AM -0400 10/7/05, Matt Gregory wrote:
Phew! I had no idea what the answer to this question was ...
matt.
On 10/7/05, Matt Neuburg <email@hidden> wrote:
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 11:35:50 -0400, Jonathan Levi MD
<<mailto:email@hidden>email@hidden> said:
>May I humbly point out a problem...
>...that Script Editor deletes the resource fork,
>including the Description section, which I think most would consider
>a significant loss.
>A simple alternative would be to stuff the script
A script can easily be transmitted over the Internet. That's not the
problem. The problem is that a compiled script sometimes can't be
opened (decompiled) on a remote machine, whereas text always can be.
Stuffing merely compounds the problem. (And stuffing as .sitx
*really* compounds the problem..
Well, then I'm the more glad I sent the original message.
Jonathan
"If I'm in a group of people and I don't know something, I usually
find that someone else in the group who doesn't know it, either." --
me
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