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Chuck Pelto <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:50:54 -0700
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P.S The two machines I'm working this out on are both running Tiger  
(10.4.x).


On Jan 20, 2006, at 1:50 PM, Chuck Pelto wrote:

>
> On Jan 20, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Mark Lively wrote:
>
>> You did replace SID with the appropriate machine information right?
>
> Here's how the script reads now...
>
> set thisMachine to "eppc://MyName:[log in to unmask]"
>
> tell application "Make DMGs" of machine thisMachine to open file  
> "Make DMGs" of folder "Applications" of startup disk
>
>
> And that's where the problem lies at the moment.
>
> I suspect that it has something to do with the fact that Make DMGs  
> is not a 'file'. It's an application, an AppleScripting application.
>
> The question remains, what is the syntax of calling upon an  
> application on a remote machine to run on that remote machine, via  
> an applescript on an separate machine.
>
> Regards.
>
> Chuck

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