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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: cron as root Revisited
Date: 28 Aug 2015 15:35:47 GMT
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On 2015-08-28, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article <1m9uasu.hbb2as1s24v0wN%csampson@inetworld.net>,
>  csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) wrote:
>
>> There's no GUI involved in this job, beyond updating a folder that files
>> are created in.
>
> Usually Automator is used to automate the operation of normal Mac 
> applications -- it watches your keystrokes and mouse clicks, and saves 
> them in a script to be repeated. That's what I assumed you were doing.

Automator is the wrong tool for the job.

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