Write raw data to plist?

I've been trying this for over a day now, but to no avail. The specific reason is I have a bootcamp partition set up with Win7, and like to keep my Windows home folder in the Finder Sidebar, which requires some cajoling. I got it working the first time around by manually editing com.apple.sidebarlists.plist with Property List Editor, but now that I'm using Parallels more than rebooting, the Sidebar item is disappearing when I start Parallels. That is to say that when I start Parallels and it unmounts the Win7 partition, the Finder permanently deletes the Sidebar entry. My solution is to write a script of some kind (bash, Applescript, etc) that I can execute whenever I close Parallels to restore the entry, but the problem is I can't write the "Alias" and "Icon" properties using the available tools.
So far I've tried "defaults", "PlistBuddy", and Applescript's System Events, but it looks like none are capable of writing a "data" item deep within a plist. Applescript will write it as a string, PlistBuddy doesn't seem to be able to interpret raw data at all (no encoding methods seemed to work), and defaults can't write deep within the hierarchy.
Am I missing something, or have I made a careless error somewhere? I'd really appreciate some help on this since my Windows home folder is normally hidden and I access it frequently.

I hadn't noticed that, since System Events seems to read the data OK. You might take a look at ASObjC Runner to access some NSArchiver methods.

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Can i send cloab data from UTL SMTP WRITE RAW DATA?

hi
here is my code to send email from oracle as attachment using demomail package provided by oracle----
create or replace procedure html_mail(
p_sender varchar2, -- sender, example: 'Me <[email protected]>'
p_recipients varchar2, -- recipients, example: 'Someone <[email protected]>'
p_subject varchar2, -- subject
p_text varchar2, -- text
p_filename varchar2, -- name of html file
p_blob blob -- html file
) is
conn utl_smtp.connection;
i number;
len number;
BEGIN
conn := demo_mail.begin_mail(
sender => p_sender,
recipients => p_recipients,
subject => p_subject,
mime_type => demo_mail.MULTIPART_MIME_TYPE);
demo_mail.begin_attachment(
conn => conn,
mime_type => 'application/csv',
inline => TRUE,
filename => p_filename,
transfer_enc => 'base64');
-- split the Base64 encoded attachment into multiple lines
i := 1;
len := DBMS_LOB.getLength(p_blob);
WHILE (i < len) LOOP
IF(i + demo_mail.MAX_BASE64_LINE_WIDTH < len)THEN
UTL_SMTP.Write_Raw_Data (conn
, UTL_ENCODE.Base64_Encode(
DBMS_LOB.Substr(p_blob, demo_mail.MAX_BASE64_LINE_WIDTH, i)));
ELSE
UTL_SMTP.Write_Raw_Data (conn
, UTL_ENCODE.Base64_Encode(
DBMS_LOB.Substr(p_blob, (len - i)+1, i)));
END IF;
UTL_SMTP.Write_Data(conn, UTL_TCP.CRLF);
i := i + demo_mail.MAX_BASE64_LINE_WIDTH;
END LOOP;
demo_mail.end_attachment(conn => conn);
demo_mail.attach_text(
conn => conn,
data => p_text,
mime_type => 'text/csv');
demo_mail.end_mail( conn => conn );
END;
Above i m using
p_blob blob -----to send message as attachment now i have table containg data into clob format nw if i send it as it is just changing coulmn from Pblob--- Clob
then it gives me error at UTL SMTP WRITE RAW DATA...
for that i do wrkaround as i m taking data from table as clob convert it to blob and
send as attachment ...
can any one guide me little that is this approcah proper?do i really need to convert data from clob to blob?
bcause in 10g Mail UTL_MAIL raw attachment i have limitation on size of email.attachment........

> still no email comes. No error as well.
SMTP itself is straight forward. It is a delivery protocol. And very easy to implement. Which is what UTL_SMTP does - without bugs or errors (none to my knowledge and experience using UTL_SMTP extensively for a long time now).
The problems experience are 50% of the time, incorrectly using SMTP. The other 50% of the time, incorrectly constructing a Mime Internet Message Body for SMTP to deliver. Both are issues that the caller (app code using UTL_SMTP) needs to address.
As UTL_SMTP is program-driven, it is not that easy to play with and debug the conversation with the SMTP server - and figure out just what the SMTP server expects, not like, disallows, etc.
In order to make sure that you are having a proper/valid conversation with the SMTP server, do it interactively using a telnet session on the Oracle server platform. All you do with telnet is to send the very same PL/SQL coded SMTP commands and parameters to the SMTP server - but interactively.
E.g.
/home/billy> telnet mail 25
Trying 165.143.128.194...
Connected to mail
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail Tue, 13 May 2008 11:20:59 +0200
HELO 10.251.93.58
250 mail: Hello [10.251.93.58]
MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>
250 <[email protected]>: Sender Ok
RCPT TO:<[email protected]>
250 <[email protected]>: Recipient Ok
DATA
354 mail: Send data now. Terminate with "."
Subject: Test Message
This is a test e-mail.
250 mail: Message accepted for delivery
QUIT
221 mail closing connection. Goodbye!
Connection closed by foreign host.
/home/billy>
Simply substitute the SMTP parameters you use in your PL/SQL calls to UTL_SMTP above. And use the same SMTP command sequence as you do in your code.
Note that in the above case, the SMTP server quite happily accepted incorrect and undeliverable sender and recipient addresses. Which means that the e-mail will wind up in the Big Bit Bucket In The Sky. No errors.

Fastest way to write raw data to hard drive (PhysicalDrive) on Windows 7

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WaitForSingleObject(osWrite.hEvent, INFINITE);
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HANDLE Disk_LockVolume(LPCWSTR _dsk)
HANDLE hVol;
LPWSTR errMsg;
DWORD status;
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hVol = CreateFile(_dsk, GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE, FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE, 0, OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, 0);
//check to see if we were able to obtain a handle to the volume
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FormatMessage(FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM, NULL, GetLastError(),
MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT), errMsg, 255, NULL);
printf("Disk_LockVolume() - CreateFile failed (%s)\n", errMsg);
goto exit;
// now lock volume
if (!DeviceIoControl(hVol, FSCTL_LOCK_VOLUME, NULL, 0, NULL, 0, &status, NULL))
FormatMessage(FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM, NULL, GetLastError(),
MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT), errMsg, 255, NULL);
printf("Disk_LockVolume() - Error attempting to lock device! (%s)\n", errMsg);
goto exit;
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if (!DeviceIoControl(hVol, FSCTL_DISMOUNT_VOLUME, NULL, 0, NULL, 0, &status, NULL))
FormatMessage(FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM, NULL, GetLastError(),
MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT), errMsg, 255, NULL);
printf("Disk_LockVolume() - Error attempting to dismount volume. (%s)\n", errMsg);
goto exit;
exit:
return hVol;
HANDLE Disk_GetHandle(UINT Lun)
HANDLE hVol;
LPTSTR errMsg = "";
DWORD status;
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Good for you for fixing the bug. On the second go-round, I noticed another one, though. You are not setting the hEvent handle on the OVERLAPPED structure. If you ever do get an ERROR_IO_PENDING, it would probably be bad inside WriteFile,
but even if that returned, you would get a problem when calling WaitForSingleObject.
It helps that we know the actual WriteFile call is what is taking the time. From your description, though, it's not clear what the precise issue is. You are comparing write speeds of your SSD vs. a regular USB flash drive. Are you also
comparing your program to that of another program? If the comparison is just between SSD and the existing USB drive, why do you not believe you have established that IO on the SSD is slow? Your last sentence is confusing: you first say that the IO on
the USB drive was as expected and IO on the SSD was slower, then say that a file write unto the USB drive took 2.5 mins and copying it to the SSD took 2.5 seconds. I assume these times were reversed.
BTW, personally for that kind of benchmarking, I would prefer non-buffered, synchronous IO myself.
I would also consider using
Process Monitor, for more information about what is going on with the low-level IO events. Ignore the benchmarking numbers when procmon is running, but getting a log from it will give you more visibility into what events are firing and their sequence,
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Hi there,
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>I have discovered that I just posted the same question.
Please annote your other post as such.
>Does DBMS_UTIL 9.2 run under Oracle 8i?
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>Where can I locate some of the sameple code that you mention?
I have none handy, yet. You can read all about it @ http://tahiti.oracle.com
Michael O'Neill
Publisher of the PigiWiki
clever-idea.com

Raw Read Error Rate, Errors occurred while reading raw data from a disk

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I install Hard Disk Sentinel software and this program shows below:
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may drive format (Fdisk) and renewing windows can fix it?
tanx and regards
Mohammad

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HP Technical Support, North America 1-800-474-6836. For all other regions click here.
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I worked on behalf of HP.

Add ability to use raw data in the Histogram and clipping indicators

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Thanks

Divya wrote:
I think I have clearly told that i have blobs of different files in my database.
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user5834416 wrote:
How does replicate recover trail raw data to the true values?
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Nice solution! Unfortunately my code example might have been a bit too simplistic. Actually I'm writing a table wrapper that allows you to add columns including a comparator that can be used for sorting elements in the column. So a slightly altered example would look like:
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Type-pools slis.
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DATA: BEGIN OF MTAB_REPORT_ASCII OCCURS 0,
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list_index_invalid = 2
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       EXPORTING
            I_PROGRAM_NAME         = sy-repid
            I_INTERNAL_TABNAME     = 'MTAB_REPORT_ASCII'
            I_INCLNAME             = sy-repid
       CHANGING
            CT_FIELDCAT            = int_fcat
       EXCEPTIONS
            INCONSISTENT_INTERFACE = 1
            PROGRAM_ERROR          = 2
            OTHERS                 = 3.
CALL FUNCTION 'REUSE_ALV_LIST_DISPLAY'
       EXPORTING
            I_CALLBACK_PROGRAM = sy-repid
            IT_FIELDCAT        = int_fcat
            I_SAVE             = 'A'
       TABLES
            T_OUTTAB           = MTAB_REPORT_ASCII
       EXCEPTIONS
            PROGRAM_ERROR      = 1
            OTHERS             = 2.
IF sy-subrc <> 0.
    MESSAGE ID sy-msgid TYPE sy-msgty NUMBER sy-msgno
    WITH sy-msgv1 sy-msgv2 sy-msgv3 sy-msgv4.
ENDIF.
ENDFORM.

Getting raw data of a variable

Is anyone aware of a handy way to get the raw (hex) data of an AppleScript variable into a text string? For example:
«data rdatEFBBBF»
«data isot323030372D31322D31325431373A34393A3130»
I can do some comparisons, and put the raw data as text into a variable, but trying to get the actual raw data as text either fails or gets coerced into whatever it is supposed to be (such as ISOT). Well, actually I can do the "force an error and grab the error message" trick, but there has got to be a better way. Perhaps something along the lines of set X to do shell script "whattheheck " & (SomeVariable as data)?

Hello
Under OS9/Classic, we can use a mighty 'cast' command of 'programmer's tool' OSAX made by Ed Lai for this kind of task.
http://osaxen.com/files/programmerstool1.0a10.html
Under OSX, the ladder has been removed.
One dirty way I can think of is to use write and read commands to force to replace the class of given data. Somethnig like this, though it won't work properly with AppleScript 2.0 if the input or output data is a sort of text object.
--SCRIPT
set x to «data isot323030372D31322D31325431373A34393A3130»
--set x to «data rdatEFBBBF»
--set x to current date
--set x to {1, 2, 3}
--set x to "ABC" as Unicode text
set y to dump(x, string)
set z to dump(y, data)
return {x, y, z}
on dump(x, cls)
  anything x : anything to be dumped [1]
  type class cls : resulting class of dumped data. e.g. string, data etc.
  return anything : dumped data as given class [2]
  * Notes.
  [1] x must be what 'write' osax can write to file. (E.g. script object etc cannot be processed by this method)
  [2] It won't return exact raw byte sequence in AppleScript 2.0 if
    - x's class is one of {Unicode text, string, text}; or
    - cls is one of {Unicode text, «class utf8», string, text}.
set fp to (path to "desk" from user domain as Unicode text) & "scptdump_tempfile" & (random number 1000000)
try
set fref to open for access file fp with write permission
set eof fref to 0
write x to fref
close access fref
set d to read file fp as cls
on error errs number errn
try
close access file fp
end try
error "dump():" & errs number errn
end try
do shell script "rm -f " & quoted form of POSIX path of fp
return d
end dump
--END OF SCRIPT
Hope this may be of some help,
Hiroto
PS.
In pre-AS 2.0, we can use 'string' to hold raw byte sequence of any kind of data, although it might be indeed an abuse of 'string' object. In AS 2.0, we seem to have lost this final way to abuse string and I'm yet to know any alternative way to process raw byte sequence safely.
Now, I think, it would be really nice to see the following basic features being implemented with «class rdat» in order to process raw byte sequence in AppleScript 2.0 or later, where we cannot 'abuse' string anymore:
• length property; e.g. length of «data rdat0032» (count «data rdat0032») returning 2.
• way to extract element(s); e.g. item 4 of «data rdat32303037» returning «data rdat37»
• way to concatenate two data; e.g. «data rdat32» & «data rdat30» returing «data rdat3230»
• way to perform valid coercion to other class, e.g. «data rdat0032» as Unicode text returning "2" (= U+0032).
• way to perform coercion from other class, e.g. ("2" as Unicode text) as data returning «data rdat0032»
Just my daydream. ; )
Message was edited by: Hiroto (corrected typo)

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