For those of us less experienced in the Apple world, who is "Tanaka" and
where can I get his/her OSAX to review?

R,

John A.M. Darnell
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On Sat, 17 May 2003 23:48:45 -0700, Walter Ian Kaye <osas@NATURAL-
INNOVATIONS.COM> wrote:

>I usually used Tanaka's osax for MT Replace, but Extra Suites has a
>replace command (not case sensitive, though -- gotta see if he'll add
>that).
>
>What exactly did you use the read/write commands for? maybe we can
>help you duplicate the functionality...

I like Tanaka's for its ability to readFromFile in one line of code,
without
having to open for access and close access (and having to worry about
leaving
the file busy if there's an error before the close access line is
reached).
It's just a quibble, really; it's what I'm used to.

The same argument for writeToFile in Tanaka's. It's just cleaner. AND I'm
admittedly fretting the thousands of lines of code I'm going to have to
edit
in the absence of Tanaka's. Oh, well. I guess Open for Access it is.

I kinda hoped somebody would chime in with the prospects of doing the same
thing with command line scripting. I'm no UNIX geek or anything, but what
little I've heard suggests a write to file command can be accomplished in
the
terminal. I just don't know the syntax. Is it truth or fiction that
command
line scripts like that offer exponentially better performance?

WES