Re: Has anyone created a script for AD 2008 home and shares in OS X.5/6?
Re: Has anyone created a script for AD 2008 home and shares in OS X.5/6?
- Subject: Re: Has anyone created a script for AD 2008 home and shares in OS X.5/6?
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:14:42 -0400
No, no, AD in that sense is politically incorrect, and has been
supplanted by CE. :)
On Tuesday, July 20, 2010, Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On Jul 20, 2010, at 11:36 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On Jul 20, 2010, at 7:43 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
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> I'm confused by the use of AppleScript at all here.
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> Obvious.
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> Sorry, what's obvious? It's obvious that it's confusing? Or I'm just
> obviously confused? My replacement script was obvious? :)
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> Sorry. I mean, when your code includes many "do shell script" lines you may [ obviously ] wonder am I using the right tool.
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> [...]Also, if the timing test was of the form
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> repeat N times
> do shell script "rm ..."
> end repeat
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> vs
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> repeat N times
> fileremove ...
> end repeat
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> then I'd be interested in the results when you let the shell do the
> looping as well, e.g.
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> do shell script "for (( i=0; i<" & N & "; ++i )); do rm ...; done"
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> I expect Files.osax will still win, but perhaps by a smaller margin.
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> I would expect Files.osax to not win, because the poor caller script has to make one fully-fledged AppleEvent for each call.
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> Fairest would be to compare with fileremove <list of URLs here>, this would make only one AE and URLs are fileremove's preferred food. Then probably Files.osax wins.
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> Emmanuel
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> That said, I think that AD 2008 *is* actually what we call usually 2008.
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