On or near 10/7/03 1:51 AM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > On 10/4/03 8:22 PM, "Bruce Klutchko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 10/4/03 9:28 PM, "Bill Shack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Idata's simple text format makes it rather simple to automate archiving >>> through simple Applescripts. Rather than use the built-in Mbox format, I >>> just constructed a field-based data form that contained everything I wanted >>> to know about a message, and then wrote a simple AS that takes a message and >>> constructs a text item corresponding to the form and appends it to the iData >>> data file (the record separator for iData files is just ASCII character >>> "06"). >> >> Would you like to share your script with the list so others could play with >> it? I'm currently using iData, but archiving the records manually. > > And, Bill, do you actually mean > > ASCII character 6 > > (no quotes, no zeroes), which is quite likely, since it will never turn up > as a normal text character? That makes a good separator. Or something else? > "06" (as text) could not work as a delimiter since it could turn up as text > and there's no ASCII character "06"; ASCII number "6" (namely 54) or "06" ( > i.e. same as ASCII number "0" = 49) shouldn't work either, even 'as > integer', for the same reasons. > I just checked, and Bill did indeed have 'ASCII character "06"' in his scripts, which he sent me a couple of days ago. I changed it to "ASCII character 6" in one of the scripts, and it definitely appears to work. Presumably his version "works" somehow...but I imagine the numeric version is technically correct. -- Microsoft MVP for Entourage/OE/Word (MVPs are volunteers) Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Entourage FAQ site: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> AppleScripts for Outlook Express and Entourage: <http://members.thinkaccess.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Scripts/> Entourage Help Pages: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
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