Re: [MacPerl] APPLETALK question

["Jefferson R. Lowrey" <lowrey@postoffice.sells.com>]

I'm mainly a lurker on this list, with some noted exceptions.

Why are you trying to do this in Perl/MacPerl?  This problem is hugely
easier in AppleScript, although you will need to find an OSAX to mount the
volume for you (of which there are many, lots freeware).  Using AppleScript
to mount the volume and access a specific file should take less time than
navigating through the folders to find the file and doing it manually.

A rough-in of the applescript would look like this:
tell application "Finder"
  mount volume "myIIfx" in zone "Oneof700" -- or whatever the osax wants
  duplicate file "myIIFx:folder:folder:myfile" to "myhd:folder:folder:myfile"
end tell

If you just want to do this in Perl, you could always go through the fun
work of capturing the apple events from an applescript.  Chris Nandor will
be happy to tell you all about it. ;-)

If you *need* to do this in Perl, I think other people will tell you how
(maybe again Chris Nandor, although if he does you should buy his book).

-Jeff Lowrey

>I think I need to add some supporting information.  I work at Motorola
>and when I use the Chooser, I see 700+ Appletalk zones.  I am used to
>going to the Chooser and selecting the zone I want, selecting which file
>server/machine I want, typing the user name and password and finaling
>selecting the volume that I want to pop up on my desktop.  There is a
>folder on  another machine ( a IIfx) that has 1900+ files in it.  Over
>appletalk it takes 10 minutes to open the folder.  I know which file I
>want. I want to write a perl script to copy this particular file by
>opening and closing this particular volume.
>
>I am not familiar with network issues or with packing and unpacking. It
>is just something I have never had to do, yet.  I have downloaded the
>Inside Macintosh book for networking and I plan on looking more at the
>man pages for perl.  I tried recording the Chooser operation, but nothing
>recorded.
>
>Do I need to seal with server/client architecture? Or is the fact that
>file sharing is setup enough?
>
>Richard.
>
>PS. I'm not a programmer. I am just trying to imitate one.
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