<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-10-12 14:39 GMT+08:00 Russell Allen <a href="mailto:mail@russell-allen.com">mail@russell-allen.com</a> [self-interest] <span dir="ltr"><<a target="_blank" href="mailto:self-interest@yahoogroups.com">self-interest@yahoogroups.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
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<div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I wouldn’t recommend reading the actual .self files. They were created by the Transporter and aren’t particularly human friendly. It is much easier to work within the UI.</div><div><br></div><div>That said, if I am in the UI and type c<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="Georgia" size="2"><i>ommand:Executing:IfFail:</i> in to a shell, highlight and right click it, and choose ‘Implementors’, I see that the method has a comment which reads:</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="Georgia" size="2"><br></font></span></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border-width:medium;border-style:none;border-color:-moz-use-text-color;padding:0px"><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="Georgia" size="2"><div>Execute cmd as a shell command.</div></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="Georgia" size="2"><div>If it fails, see if aFileName exists somewhere</div></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="Georgia" size="2"><div>in $PATH. If not, prompt the user and try again.</div></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="Georgia" size="2"><div>— dmu</div></font></span></div></blockquote><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="Georgia" size="2"><div><br></div><div>And if I right click again on the name and choose “Senders” I see that there is one sender: <i>readUsingImageMagick: fileName Type: type</i> which uses it to check that the ‘convert’ command line app is present.</div></font></span></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers Russell</div><div><div class="gmail-h5"><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>A cool tip! Thanks.<br><br></div><div>After reading comments and code of command:Executing:IfFail: and related command:ExecutingAll:IfFail:, I think comment and code are not consistent, maybe one of them should be adjusted.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div class="gmail-h5"><div></div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 11 Oct. 2016, at 11:16 pm, Xin Wang <a target="_blank" href="mailto:dram.wang@gmail.com">dram.wang@gmail.com</a> [self-interest] <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:self-interest@yahoogroups.com">self-interest@yahoogroups.com</a><wbr>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_-5924892162987813165Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" id="gmail-m_-5924892162987813165ygrp-mlmsg"><div style="line-height:1.22em" id="gmail-m_-5924892162987813165ygrp-msg"><div style="line-height:1.22em;font-family:georgia" id="gmail-m_-5924892162987813165ygrp-text"><div style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 1em"><br class="gmail-m_-5924892162987813165webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="line-height:1.22em" dir="ltr"><div style="line-height:1.22em"><div style="line-height:1.22em">Hi all,<br style="line-height:1.22em"><br style="line-height:1.22em"><br style="line-height:1.22em">When reading code in `objects/core/unix.self`, I can not figure out what's purpose of `command:Executing:IfFail:`. Could anyone give me a hint?<br style="line-height:1.22em"><br style="line-height:1.22em"><br style="line-height:1.22em"></div>Regards,<br style="line-height:1.22em"></div>Xin Wang<br style="line-height:1.22em"></div><div style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 1em"><br class="gmail-m_-5924892162987813165webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div style="line-height:1.22em;color:rgb(255,255,255);height:0px"></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>
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