Hi,

I'm a novice and I hope someone can help me with my troubles. I'm

trying to create an applescript which downloads a file to the desktop,

then opens the file and reads it into a string:

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set the target_URL to the clipboard

set the destination_file to ((path to desktop as string) &

"maptemp.htm")

tell application "URL Access Scripting"

download target_URL to file destination_file replacing yes

end tell

open for access destination_file

set filedata to (

if you are running osX try something with a shell command? Otherwise go look at a plugin http://www.troi.com/software/fileplugin.html

Why not just put the data straight into the field?

Example:

set targetURL to "http://www.apple.com"

do shell script "curl " & targetURL

copy result to cell "whatever" of current record