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AppleScript is NOT better
Authored by: viega on Sep 12, '02 02:28:11PM

No, the first thing I did was a folder action. They were too flakey. The actions kept disappearing mysteriously, first of all. Second, you couldn't drag-and-drop the mime-attachment to the folder directly because the mime-attachment was a read-only file. Third, you couldn't set the desktop to have folder actions and have that actually work. Fourth, even if actions worked robustly, while you can add Folder Actions to StartupItems, it was not straightforward to attach the folder action on login automatically. Fifth, Doing the regular expression replaces in AppleScript was going to be really messy, whereas it's simple from a shell script. The shell script also brought the entry up into iCal MUCH faster than the AppleScript solution.



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