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Walter Ian Kaye <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 5 Jul 2007 18:02:06 -0700
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At 06:45 p -0400 07/05/2007, Mark Lively didst inscribe upon an 
electronic papyrus:

>On Jul 5, 2007, at 6:28 PM, J. Stewart wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>You would probably have better luck with a shell script using 
>>"curl". URL Access Scripting has always seemed a bit flakey to me.
>>
>><x-man-page://curl> or in Terminal - man curl
>
>URL Access Scripting was described to me as "a world of pain".  Curl 
>and do shell script is much easier.
>
>-Mark

I didn't even know UAS was even brought over to OS X. I assumed this 
new OS would put a nail in UAS's coffin, and am surprised to hear 
that anyone was even trying to use that old thing. To describe it in 
another word: "Ew." :-)

Hey, where's that x-man-page scheme from? Never saw that before.

-boo
crawling out from under his !Rch and GKON scripts

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