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What is going on? Versiontracker says iLife is shipping, but has a note that iPhoto and iMovie are not available for download yet. What's this about? Are they going to pull some stunt where it's only available online after a few months to boost sales? :mad: I am not very happy.

Nope. Same error. TextEdit got an error: file "Drive Name:Users:username:Desktop:testing.rtf" doesn't understand the open message.

Does anyone know how to get TextEdit to open a file from an AppleScript. I tried the logical: tell application "TextEdit" open file "Drive Name:Users:username:Desktop:testing.rtf" end tell But it doesn't work. Tells me that the file doesn't understand the open command. But if I substitute...

All right. Ten times better. Now I can see the information I need in a different window, and I can sort and reduce the list. The FINK commander is much better. Also, I could tell when something was selected and when it wasn't. That must've been the problem before with the xfree86 install it...

OK. OK. I'm downloading Fink commander. I guess my biggest problem with Fink has been that there is just SO MUCH information for a terminal window. This FINK commander thing looks interesting. Will report back after giving it a test. I really appreciate the help and advice.

I went to the package list at Fink, and I don't see anyway to download Mac versions. All I find when I click is a description with a link to the developer's page. And those people didn't seem to have any Mac versions. Am I missing something?

Actually, I think I will try that. I just tried using Fink, again, and I can't do it. There is too much information for a terminal program. I would try to download some X-something or other and it would squawk about needing the xfree86-base EVERYTIME. But since I have Apple's, X11, I don't need...

Thanks. That really helps a lot. So, I can't use the Aqua interface stuff and get rid of the hideous grey menus in Gimp. That's good to know. Second, what if I didn't want to use Fink? I don't know that I am completely against it, but I tried it a long time ago with 10.1 and it didn't work very...

Thanks ahead of time to anyone who will take the time to answer some of these basic questions. X11 is a whole new world. OK. I have been purusing the X11 threads and, honestly, have not found some basic answers to some basic questions. Doing a search on Google really confuses me, because it...

I don't think it came with Dev Tools. Had them installed and constantly upated since Jaguar and I don't have wget either.

I don't think the Windows 2000 server part matters. I just tried it with the company that hosts my site and got the same behavior and they run a pure UNIX setup. Again, I think Apple has let us down again on this one. I really felt like full ftp access should be part of the Finder, too. I tried...

Folders aren't enough. Find file isn't enough. I wanted the database so that I could use my own organization system including tags (fields) like draft status, author and countless others I have I mind. But even then, folder structures assume that something belongs to only one family. Also, I...

I'm trying to write a program to help me organize all of the text-based files I have. Some I have written, some are downloaded. But I have thousands and need a customized organization system (My database has 20 fields so far). So I thought I could use a MySQL database to not only store plain...

I was trying to escape the rtf characters for a complete copy of the file within MySQL and NOT for web purposes. I am trying to use this mostly on my machine locally. I also would like it if I could find a non-Perl solution. However, anything would help. I just need something relatively standard...

Even when I try to pipe the data in (unless I am doing it wrong), all of the forward slashes in an rtf file end up missing when I get MySQL to display the data. I tried using insert and I think I also tried using batch. The MySQL docs say that you should escape certain characters, but they...

I am going mad trying to figure out how to automatically escape characters for inclusion into a mysql database. I want to insert raw rtf data into a blob field. I need to do this via the shell. But doing seraches on Google or the documentation for mysql has been no help. All tutorials on the...

I understand Applescript shouldn't be asked to handle vast amounts of data, but doesn't that mean manipulation? I would have the applescript merely doing shell scripts. As in taking data from a window to make a MySQL query and then transferring the shell results to a window object. Since...

I just need some advice on Applescript Studio before I start on a large project, so if anyone experienced with it could help foresee any pitfalls before I invest a lot of work, I would appreciate it. I want to write an Applescript Studio application to access a MySQL database for text...