Old-style Frontier usage in OS X world

[Nick Cahill]

I too still use Frontier in this way, and for even more mundane tasks  
which I could use Applescript for, but don't want to. I like the   
Frontier scripting environment better, and have been using it for these  
tasks since it was free. I wish there were a version of Frontier which  
just did these tasks, at a discount -- it's an expensive tool if one is  
just doing scripting jobs. I keep thinking that I'll switch to  
Applescript, but am too invested in Frontier.

Nick Cahill



On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 02:47  PM, Kit wrote:

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> On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, TQ White II <tq at justkidding.com> wrote:
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>>   I still use Frontier as it was long ago, as a website rendering
>>   framework. I still ftp using Appletalk commands to Fetch. I feel  
>> like
>>   a dinosaur, but have pretty much fun with my hybrid Frontier/PHP
>>   universe.
>
> I am like you in that regard.  It saves me lots of work doing my web
> pages.  In addition I have it do tons of other things.  For example,
> this email is formatted using scripting with Frontier.
>
> I do notice that the Fetch glue scripts haven't been updated and
> don't work properly with Fetch 4 which allows for various forms of
> password encryption.  Does anyone have any info on updated Fetch
> scrips or other secure FTPing?
>
>>   Anyway, I am learning to operate the Mac OS X side of a website I
>>   want to make in Frontier. I am able to create pages using all of my
>>   tools. It's cool.
>
> Although my laptop is still OS 9, I've started playing around with OS
> X and seeing how Frontier acts differently.
>
>>   I have one problem: when new directories are needed to fit the
>>   structure of the website, some part of the file transfer chain is
>>   creating folders with bad permissions. In this case, it's all 'no
>>   access'.
>
> I've not run into that yet, but am mainly using Frontier in OS 9.
> I'll try it in OS X and see what it does to my file permissions.
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