Recent content by daver969

> I use AppleWorks a lot; have you considered importing the graphs as > some other file format and then printing to PDF? ah yes, forgot to mention that part: importing PDF's into Appleworks works fine and looks good on screen, but when I go to print it out, ugh! the PDF becomes all blurry...

Well, I used to generate PS files with Classic's "Print to a file" feature, but these days I save to PDF's in OSX. The problem is that I often use several pieces of software to generate a single 'document' (typically Appleworks and some Graphing software (I know that AW does graphs, but I need...

Is there an easy way to take several pdf's and concatenate them into a single file? (or several .ps files)?

It didn't work, I think the problem may be that the "locked"ness comes from osX, and is not an inherent part of unix. Any other ideas?

rm -f filename won't remove a file if it's locked, is there any way to get around this? Perhaps by logging in as root? If so, how do I get crontab to run a script as root instead of as me?

Yeah, port BetterTelnet! I love BetterTelnet, it does everything the way it's supposed to be done. In Terminal I have to type "esc-o o" just to get a ctrl-o (postpone a message in pine). ugh.

OK, after doing a little research I discovered the following things: 1) the correct format is set todaysdate = `date` where the quote is the 'backquote' and not the straight up&down quote. 2) this only works in the C-shell (i.e. csh, and not sh) 3) OS X has both shells, the regular...

Thanks everybody for your help, here's what I decided to do: 1) write a shell script that does what my old applescript did. It was easy since i basically know unix, all i needed was the "if [ -e file ]" part to test for existence. 2) use cron to run it once a day: 0 4 * * * * sh myscript...

Hi, I have a couple of questions, related to my ongoing quest to find the ultimate backup script. Basically, I want to set up a script to backup the files in my user space once a day. I used to use Applescript to do this, but it required me to actively execute the script every day, and now...