Hi all,

Apologies if this is an old subject, maybe I'm using the wrong search 
terms because I didn't find anything in the archives and I'd have thought 
it was a very common problem for scripters moving from OS9 to OSX... 

I can't open any of my OS9 Applescripts on my 10.4.4 machine. I've only 
recently upgraded to OSX and was surprised to find that all the OS9 
compiled scripts that I transfer either from CD or USB Flash drive show up 
as Terminal documents, but can't be opened with Terminal, Script Editor or 
Script Debugger. I tried using the OS9 version of Script Editor in the 
Classic environment but without success. It seems that the files just 
aren't recognised as valid Applescripts.

I'm guessing that this is because they are scripts stored in the resource-
fork, but I thought there would be a utility available to transfer them 
(without saving them all as text on the OS9 machine). Even if they can't 
be executed without re-compilation, I'd just like to get the code out of 
the files, as none of the OS9 machines that I have access to now have CD 
burners on them, so recreating the original CDs I stored the projects on 
would be a problem, even if I found out why files on the existing CDs 
can't be read.

Has this been a common problem, or is it something to do with my 
particular setup (moving directly from OS9 to Tiger).

Any info/suggestions most gratefully accepted.

Simon