Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 12:01:32 +0100
From: Jan Erik Moström
I love Un*x ability for scripting / shell and I do not think there is scripting on the Mac.
Actually, the scripting support on Macs is very good, better than any other platform I've tried 8-) With the use of AppleScript it's pretty easy to to control other application (given that they support Applescript) adding functionality that wasn't previously available. I have for example one that works together with my mail program, a database, a text editor and telnet to manage user accounts on a Linux server (I won't go into details why I need this 8-) but it works beutifully and I have never been able to do anything like this without a major effort on other platforms. And AppleScript works very well with for example Perl or other similar tools. <p> jem -- Jan Erik Moström mailto:jem@mostrom.pp.se Free Elektron http://www.mostrom.pp.se/folk/jem/
From: juergen.braukmann@ruhr-west.de Message-ID: <3A0ECF7A.ED87DE0C@ruhr-west.de> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 18:12:26 +0100 Subject: Re: [SLE] mac osX The end of Linux? Jan Erik Moström wrote:
On fredag 10 november 2000 22:43, juergen.braukmann@ruhr-west.de chirped
I love Un*x ability for scripting / shell and I do not think there is scripting on the Mac.
Actually, the scripting support on Macs is very good, better than any other platform I've tried 8-)
With the use of AppleScript it's pretty easy to to control other application (given that they support Applescript) adding functionality that wasn't previously available. I have for example one that works together with my mail program, a database, a text editor and telnet to manage user accounts on a Linux server (I won't go into details why I need this 8-) but it works beutifully and I have never been able to do anything like this without a major effort on other platforms. And AppleScript works very well with for example Perl or other similar tools.
Thanks to all for clearifying that point. I am not at all involved in Mac's, just seen one and worked a bit with it. ;-) My idea of scripting was something like shells and shell scripts. I know there is something like scripting on Win, but experiance sais this is only good for virus scripts. ;-( Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
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