On 7/12/01 11:00 PM, "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> From: Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:08:01 -0700
> Subject: Re: Does archive Tx to Filemaker DB work under OS X?
>
> 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.
Actually, I spent a bit of time updating your update months ago; I use it
all the time. However, it's still wholly non-X. No compelling reason to
adapt them to X when a) Entourage is a Classic app, and b) my copy of
Filemaker is a Classic app. The latter's not going to change soon as I'm
way torqued at Filemaker as it would cost the same to update my December
2000 copy of Filemaker 5 to 5.5 as it would any ancient version. WAYY too
much money for Carbonization and a few bug fixes.
If there's interest in a superset of Dan Crevier's and Alan's script,
holler.
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