On Jul 6, 2007, at 10:10 PM, Stockly, Ed wrote: >>>> I've had scripts using URL Access for years. They were a pain to >>>> write and > debug (with help from this list and AppleScript users). Partially > based on > its reputation, I wouldn't go so far as to recommend URL Access, but > I have > never had to force-quit it. Not once, and it runs daily on my mac and > several other macs around the office. And it saves having to do more > shell > scripting, which has got to be good. > I've had some issues with it not doing things that I wanted it to. As for forced quitting, I only did that under OS 9. It would lockup waiting for a response about 1 time out of 200. > I've never learned ps or killall. I'm pleased to say I don't even > know what > they are. > ps is a shell command to list processes. killall is for getting rid of processes, it kills all processes that belong to you with a particular name. Flags allow for wildcarding > So, now you've been told a few times that URL Access may not be so > bad after > all. It probably isn't but I've gotten used to CURL. -Mark