Thanks, Peter, for the info on URL Access Scripting. Yes, it's there in my
OS 8.6 installation. I'll give it a try ... as you say, looks
lighter-weight and less finicky to script than the Fetch app.
regards,
Scott Maxson
At 08:54 AM 2/19/2004 +0100, you wrote:
Apart from using Fetch or Interar
Apart from using Fetch or Interarchy, back in the days I ran into
similar problems I turned to URL Access Scripting (living in the
Scripting Additions Folder) which worked very well and with less
overhead than a full fledged FTP client, while it is still possible to
display a progress dialog. S
Hey Chris,
Thanks much - this does, indeed, work and gets around the limitations I was
hitting trying to AppleScript
Fetch from the "published" dictionary. The Glue stuff is way cool, and the
auto-discovery & packaging of available events is a delight.
I had to mess around with the Fetch applic
Hello MacPerl gurus and gurettes,
I'm running MacPerl 5.6.1r2 under OS 8.6, and having trouble downloading
large (2+ Mb) binary files using Net:FTP. I've given MacPerl 40 Mb of RAM
in the finder, but the file transfer stops at around 1.5 Meg and my mac
freezes up (no out-of-memory error, but a
At 20:22 -0800 2004.02.18, Scott Maxson wrote:
>I'm running MacPerl 5.6.1r2 under OS 8.6, and having trouble downloading
>large (2+ Mb) binary files using Net:FTP. I've given MacPerl 40 Mb of RAM
>in the finder, but the file transfer stops at around 1.5 Meg and my mac
>freezes up (no out-of-memory
Hello MacPerl gurus and gurettes,
I'm running MacPerl 5.6.1r2 under OS 8.6, and having trouble downloading
large (2+ Mb) binary files using Net:FTP. I've given MacPerl 40 Mb of RAM
in the finder, but the file transfer stops at around 1.5 Meg and my mac
freezes up (no out-of-memory error, but a
