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.
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