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Re: HyperCard to MySql
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Jon Pugh <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:22:38 -0800
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At 7:18 PM -0500 3/23/06, Lloyd Butler wrote:
>Unfortunately a 'do shell script' will not compile in HC, even if you try and wrap it in a call to the Finder.

I've gotten this to work:

tell application "Finder"
	set t to «event sysoexec» "echo barf"
end tell

but it returns Unicode which HyperCard can't deal with.  I'm sure I had a way of converting utf8 to MacRoman, but I can't find it now.

Perhaps someone else can help.

Jon

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