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I could test that since I am with 10.5.8, and I have Smile installed,
but I'm sorry I don't have a stuffit engine, could you please make it
a zip?
Emmanuel
On Aug 20, 2010, at 9:29 AM, John Delacour wrote:
> I posted this message to the Smile list a few days ago but it hasn't
> appeared. Perhaps someone here knows what's happening...
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> Back in 2006 I wrote this script for Eudora users
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> <http://bd8.com/eudora/scripts/#searcheudorasettings>
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> that allows you to search for settings matching a regular
> expression, and the script continues to work for many users, but
> users of later versions of Mac OS X have been complaining it doesn't
> work any more.
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> Since I have no access to anything later than 10.4.11 I have been
> reluctant to fix the problem and involve myself in long Q&A sessions
> with users who don't understand AppleScript. However one persistant
> user finally persuaded me to send him a couple of tests and I
> discover that AppleScript is eating, annihilating, the entire
> contents of a handler that is meant to return the full list of
> Eudora settings. The man in question has opened the script in
> Script Editor (10.5.8) and something called AppleScript Editor
> (10.7.*) and on editing and saving the file size shrinks from
> 199,180 bytes to 9,729 as a result of the emptying of the handler.
>
> Now I have no idea how to deal with such rogues and wonder if it
> would make any difference if they recompiled and saved in Smile,
> since it seems to be a massive bug in AppleScript. If not, then I
> shall have to supply the settings in a separate file and have the
> script read that. But who knows what other deficiencies I will
> bring to light in the process.
>
> Hope someone can enlighten me. Perhaps these people are simply
> holding their computers by the wrong corner!
>
> JD
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