Explaining syntax

Subject: Explaining syntax
From: Ronan O Ciosoig <email@hidden>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:58:50 +0100

Hi, can someone explain this syntax to me:

What is the significance of this bit of code in the below context?

script name "Notifier"

tell application "Skype" to set theServerName to (text returned) of (display dialog "Please enter a server name:" with icon 1 default answer "")

tell application "Address Book"
	set allPeopleToContact to ((people whose note contains (("Server: " & theServerName) as string)) as list)
	repeat with thePersonWeAreContacting in allPeopleToContact
		set theFirstName to (first name of thePersonWeAreContacting)
		set thePhone to (value of ((first phone of thePersonWeAreContacting) whose label = "mobile"))

		set theSMSText to "Dear " & theFirstName & ", this little note to inform you that your server \"" & theServerName & "\" suffered a short outage today. Things are now back to normal."
		tell application "Skype"
			set TheSMS to (word 2 of (send command ("CREATE SMS OUTGOING " & thePhone) script name "Notifier") as text)
			send command (("SET SMS " & TheSMS & " BODY " & theSMSText) as string) script name "Notifier"
			send command (("ALTER SMS " & TheSMS & " SEND") as string) script name "Notifier"
		end tell
	end repeat
end tell

From: http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/11/automate_sms_sending_with_skyp.html

In any case... I did a small modification to send a script to be sent using a command line:

on run argv

set theFirstName to item 1 of argv

set thePhone to item 2 of argv

set theSMStext to "Hey " & theFirstName & ", this is Skype saying hello"

tell application "Skype"

set TheSMS to (word 2 of (send command ("CREATE SMS OUTGOING " & thePhone) script name "Notifier") as text)

send command (("SET SMS " & TheSMS & " BODY " & theSMStext) as string) script name "Notifier"

send command (("ALTER SMS " & TheSMS & " SEND") as string) script name "Notifier"

end tell

end run

And then call it from the command line

/usr/bin/osascript smsCommandTest.scpt <name> +<countryCode><mobileNumber>

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