On or near 7/11/01 5:22 PM, Weiyun Yu at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> Allen Watson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/7/2001 18:24:
>
>> On or near 7/10/01 11:25 PM, Weiyun Yu at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
>
>>> Would the Crevier's script for transfer of emails to Filemaker DB work
>> under
>>> OS X? I will refer to Classic Entourage and Mac OS X version of
Filemaker
>>> Pro 5.5 here.
>>>
>>> Well, I have tried my copy of script and it got stuck with a failure to
>>> recognise Filemaker under OS X.
>
>> This <should> work better than that. John Carlsen (who is still working
on
>> finishing up eMessage Archiver, a similar but more sophisticated
scripting
>> package for FMP with Entourage, OE, Eudora, Claris Emailer and some news
>> readers) reports that, for him, his scripts work as is using Entourage
and
>> FMP in Classic.
>>
>> I suspect that you actually need to use the Classic version of FMP! Most
>> likely that either both apps have to be X, or both Classic. Do you have
any
>> way to get FMP running in classic? (an earlier version perhaps? FMP 3 or
>> higher will support the scripts)
>
> Yes, it would be nice to have a more up to date scripting package.
However,
> I find it hard to keep changing unless they are compatible with existing
FMP
> files that was originally created by Crevier.
>
> As for my reported experience, I was trying to transfer from Entourage in
> Classic to FMP in OS X. I guess the scripts will need to be updated to
> transcend this Classic-OS X native boundary...
Nobody has really been maintaining those scripts in any thorough way. Dan
Crevier did a quick adaptation to make them work with Entourage; I fixed
several small bugs, particularly in the date routines. I don't really know
the inner workings of the scripts all that well to attempt something like
porting them to X. So I don't know if you can expect that to happen.
Carlsen's package, which I am using in public beta test, will import from
Crevier archive files into his newer and more flexible FMP database, as well
as import from OE and Entourage and all the others. However, I don't know if
it will work with FMP 5.5 on X or not. As I say, he has used it with FMP
v5.0 under Classic.
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the Crevier archive scripts to be
ported to OS X, however. I'm not planning to do it, and I don't think Dan is
either. I sure can't afford the price of FMP for OS X at the moment. $150
just for an upgrade is a bit steep!
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