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The Tao of AppleScript 1993

The Tao of AppleScript: BMUG's Guide to Macintosh Scripting is a 1993 book by Derrick Schneider, edited by Tim Holmes, with a foreword by Cliff Stoll. It was published by Hayden Books, Indianapolis, for BMUG, the Berkeley Macintosh Users Group, which holds the copyright. ISBN 1-56830-075-1, Library of Congress Catalog No. 93-79095; the printing code shows the second printing, 1993.[1] The numbered text and index run to p. 295.[2]

It is an introduction to AppleScript, which BMUG tested as a seed site with help from Apple's AppleScript evangelists.[3] The chapters build a series of example scripts, several of them for Apple's Scriptable Text Editor, and end with a reference to the AppleScript language and a chapter on application dictionaries. The book's "Tao Disk" carried the AppleScript software and the example scripts; it is not part of the scan.[4][5] BMUG describes itself in the book as a membership-based non-profit that sells no advertising in its newsletters.[6]

Contents

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Page numbers are from the book's contents list.[4]

  • Foreword (Cliff Stoll), p. ix; Introduction, p. xix
  • Chapter 1: Getting Started, p. 1
  • Chapter 2: Scripting Basics, p. 9
  • Chapter 3: Building Scripts: Finding Your Way, p. 45
  • Chapter 4: Building Scripts: Living off the Land, p. 57
  • Chapter 5: Building Scripts: Collecting Tools, p. 77
  • Chapter 6: Complex Scripts: Building a Boat, p. 89
  • Chapter 7: Complex Scripts: Going Downstream, p. 107
  • Chapter 8: Complex Scripts: Climbing the Mountain, p. 117
  • Chapter 9: Advanced Scripting, p. 163
  • Chapter 10: The Dictionary, p. 183
  • Chapter 11: Where to Go, p. 191
  • Appendix A: The Technology, p. 203
  • Appendix B: The AppleScript Language, p. 209
  • Glossary, p. 259; About BMUG, p. 271; Index, p. 279; Disk Summary, p. 298

What this book does not contain

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It is about scripting software. It has no hardware information or service procedures. The hosted scan is 311 PDF pages, covers included.

Download: The_Tao_of_AppleScript_1993.pdf (20.4 MB)

References

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  1. ↑ Derrick Schneider, The Tao of AppleScript (Hayden Books / BMUG, 1993), title page, copyright page and credits (PDF pp. 4-7).
  2. ↑ Schneider, The Tao of AppleScript, Index, pp. 279-295 (PDF pp. 293-309).
  3. ↑ Schneider, The Tao of AppleScript, Acknowledgments (PDF p. 8).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Schneider, The Tao of AppleScript, Table of Contents at a Glance and Table of Contents (PDF pp. 11-17).
  5. ↑ Schneider, The Tao of AppleScript, "Included on the Tao Disk" (PDF p. 310).
  6. ↑ Schneider, The Tao of AppleScript, About BMUG (PDF p. 9).
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