[REBOL] Re: help with mail attachments please
From: dk-photo:home at: 11-Aug-2001 12:26
Porter Woodward wrote:
> - but I do recall as there was some way to
>invoke apps with parameters from within AppleScript. It may simply be
>that you'll want to create a wrapper in AppleScript to call REBOL scripts.
That is PRECISELY what I need to do, and exactly what Rebol cannot do.
And BTW, the lack of a command line in Mac OS 9.x is not the problem. (I
have 1 Windblows, and 2 Linux boxes on my desk, and harbor no "Mac is the
only computer in the world" illusions.) What I need is not a command
line. I want this solution operator-free and completely automated.
I need one running program/script to be able to call a dormant,
non-running script (Rebol) into action.
Since that CAN be done on *nix, the problem on the Mac doesn't have
anything to do with "market share", or shouldn't. Either this "universal"
messaging language is really universal or it isn't. If you CAN activate
it with calls from other software on some, but not all OS's, then it is
NOT universal.
Sorry to be so strident in my postings, but I long ago lost count, and
lost my patience, with languages that make big promises they never
fulfill and then disappear almost overnight. It is infuriating to spend
money on books and time on learning a language, only to discover it was
all a big waste of time.
<TEASE ON>
You mentioned that Rebol needs as much as a 70 meg partition on a
Windblows machine, and the Mac might have similar problems because of its
poor memory management?! It seems to me that any 300+ K app that needs a
70 meg partition may have more than a little poor memory management of
its own!
</TEASE OFF>
David Kachel
theMac Workshop
http://www.macworkshop.net
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the election.
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nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin
Millions of sniveling cowards shivering in the corner,
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real and imagined,
have stolen liberty from the rest of us.
A government drunk with power, gleefully complies.
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