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 Software Development In honor of THE MATRIX RELOADED: In the first movie, close to the climax, Keanu Reeves and Carrie Ann Moss take a harrowing express ride up an elevator by explosively disconnecting the counterweight. Just before activating the detonator, Reeves says something. What was it that he said? Eric Schult <[log in to unmask]> Sent by: Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]> 05/21/2003 09:18 AM Please respond to Macintosh Scripting Systems To: [log in to unmask] cc: Subject: Re: OS X alternative to Tanaka's 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