Re: vcal and ics files in OS9
Re: vcal and ics files in OS9
- Subject: Re: vcal and ics files in OS9
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:17:35 -0800
- Thread-topic: vcal and ics files in OS9
Unless there's someone else out there similarly stuck with having to
negotiate with dead OS 9 stuff and also the newest OS 10.4 stuff, and can
program, no one else will ever want to figure out this sort of thing. You
might as well try to do it by telegram. (Remember those?) Honestly, current
OS methods are getting further and further from old OS 9 software, which was
never very good at networking anyhow. I recall trying to get my computers at
home and work, each with its own static IP address, to "connect to" each
other to share files - something that is dead simple now in OS X with the
Finder's "Go" menu. It never worked in OS 9, although File Sharing, the
Chooser, and so on, all claimed to be able to do it. It would just sit there
forever trying to connect.
If and when your wife decides that she really needs the features that you
show her are available on modern computers - maybe when she actually misses
a meeting - she might be willing to upgrade and have to spend lots of time
learning new things that she'd rather devote to more pressing activities.
Until then, I think it's unlikely to work, and people who might perhaps be
able to help don't really want to get bogged down in all that unless, like
you, they really have to. There's no future in it. ;-)
--
Paul Berkowitz
> From: doug rogers <email@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:58:15 -0500
> To: List Applescript Users <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: vcal and ics files in OS9
>
>>> Has anyone done anything with generating these files in OS9? Before I
>>> try to reinvent the wheel, I thought I should ask the wizards. I'd
>>> like to create them in OS 9 and send them to an OS X Mail where they
>>> should be picked up by iCal.
>>
>> Why?
>
> To make life easier :-)
>
> For various reasons having to do with legacy hardware and software my
> wife continues to use our beige tower G3 and OS9. We nearly missed a
> meeting that she hadn't written on the Kitchen dead tree calendar,
> she hadn't put into her Treo, so it wasn't synchronized to iCal on
> this Powerbook, and so, neither was it synchronized to my Treo.
> Despite the technology in her hands, she continues to use a HyperCard
> stack I built some years ago to keep track of various events in her
> life, dipping her toes only gingerly into actually putting events in
> iCal on the Powerbook.
>
> I have sent an event from iCal to her email (Claris Emailer) and I
> can see the ics, or vcal info directly in the email on the G3. I
> imagine, perhaps naively, that I should be able to generate such a
> file with SuperCard, HyperCard or Applescript on the G3 for her to
> send such information via email to the powerbook , and let Mail and
> iCal take care of posting the information.
>
> eppc events still fail regularly across the OS's requiring restarts
> of the G3 each time consequent to the eppc event failure. I do not
> understand sockets, which I am led to believe may be a way to bypass
> this problem of machines talking to one another. This seems like an
> accessible solution. I am wondering therefor, if anyone has done
> anything like this.
>
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