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On Apr 24, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Bruce Robertson wrote:
>> At 12:21 PM -0600 4/24/08, Chuck Pelto wrote:
>>>>> And yes, there's no real reward for the work and lots of other
>>>>> things
>>>>> competing for my very limited time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jon
>>>>
>>>> Well, I, for one, certainly appreciate being able to use that
>>>> tool in
>>>> hundreds of scripts and numerous environments for more than 10
>>>> years now.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you, Jon.
>>>
>>> I'll say that I'm willing to pay for the product. It sure as heck
>>> has saved
>>> ME a lot of time.
>>
>> I'm glad Jon's Commands was as popular as it was, coming on the
>> heels of
>> AppleScript itself. However, it wasn't much work to create it as
>> the initial
>> commands came from largely just recompiling my old HyperCard
>> xcmds. Now I'd
>> need to rewrite all of them completely and test them on PPC and
>> Intel.
>>
>> If I were interested in a second job, perhaps I'd be more
>> enthusiastic. ;)
>>
>> Jon
>
> What's the level of effort required? Any chance you'd turn it over to
> somebody else; or do something like get a hold of Seattle Xcoders
> (dBug
> programming SIG) and see if somebody there wants to tackle it or
> assist?
>
> <http://www.dbug.org/sigs/xcoders/>
>
> <http://lists.seattlexcoders.org/mailman/listinfo/xcoder-talk>
>
My guess is he would have to port it from Pascal and toolbox calls.
-Mark
Remembers writing a page of pascal to ask for the name of document 1.
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