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Re: URL Access Scripting syntax-solved
From:
Bill Steele <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 6 Jul 2007 11:23:49 -0400
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>You've been told several times: unfortunately, URLAS is not 
>reliable. Sooner or later it will hang and you will have to 
>force-quit it before it can work again. How will you force-quit it? 
>Probably with a shell script, using ps and killall. So finally 
>you're not learning curl and instead you will learn killall and ps.

OK, OK, I'll look into it.

The downside, however, seems to be that curl has to be installed, 
whereas URLAS is available on every Mac in the office.
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Bill Steele
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