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Talking to OS 9 Machines under OS X

Stripping the Last Character from every item in a list

Find And Activate Any Of A List

Returning Running App's Path from List

Process Tricks

List To Record

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Droplet Idiom

The droplet idiom gives you two things. First, the script can handle when the user doesn't drop something on to the application. Secondly, by always passing a list to main(), we let main deal with the multiple file part... but the on run handler also has to pass its parameter to main() as a list (which we do) to avoid errors.

It could be constructed a different way - having main handle only one file at a time, and on open() being responsible for calling main() N times. (Different Strokes For Different Folks)

on main(fileList)
        
        repeat with each in fileList
            --fill me in!
        end repeat
end main

on run {}
        main({choose file})
        --main( { alias "..."} )  -- fill alias quotes with a file for testing
end run

on open (fileList)
        
end open

Information on using Applescript to Zip files

Use gzip tar instead of zip...

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