MAC address

[Dar Scott]

On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 02:39 AM, Monte Goulding wrote:

>>> Do we have access to the MAC address/Physical Address?
>>
>> I don't think so.  On OS X try shell("ifconfig -a") and parse the 
>> result
>> from that.  On Windows do something similar with (I think) ipconfig.
>>
> Hmm... what do you get from get shell("ifconfig -a");put it on OS X
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function shellSH cmd
   -- Sorry, no quote marks in cmd in this version
   -- Uses sh; use full path in command
   -- And shellCommand is ignored
   put "do shell script" & quote & cmd & quote into s
   do s as AppleScript
   put result() into r
   replace numToChar(13) with linefeed in r
   return r
end shellSH

on mouseUp
   put shellSH("/sbin/ifconfig -a") into field "Report"
end mouseUp
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Tested on Rev 1.1.1: Works.

I had left out two things in saying "shell".  There is no working shell 
in Rev 1.1.1 OS X and the workaround uses sh without your environment so 
you have to specify the path.

> I get 0 and that's with MC 2.4.3 and 2.5A1

I would have thought that would work.

>
> I thought we got shell access on OS X now? It works fine in Terminal.

In 2.0, I believe.

> You don't know about OS 9 do you?

I just had to rebuild my OS 9 classic, so I'm not able to answer well.  
I have used some 3rd party network utilities in the past that were 
applescriptable, but I don't remember names.

Dar Scott