Can Metacard copy files?

[Ben Rubinstein]

on 19/8/03 6:41 pm, depstein at att.net wrote
> Is there a Metacard script that will copy an existing non-stack (e.g., JPG)
> file to a specified directory and give the copy a specified new file name?

Rev has a command revCopyFiles.  (This uses shell and AppleScript on the
various platforms, so unlike simply reading data in and writing it out
again, it preserves all the file attributes (and on MacOS, resource forks).)

I'd guess if your app isn't for distribution there's nothing to stop you
downloading a demo copy of Rev and inspecting/copying the code.  (I'd also
imagine that this is the kind of 'simply missing' command that we can expect
to see merge into MetaTalk/Transcript as part of the new process.)

HTH,
 
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