>On Nov 21, 2006, at 5:43 PM, Bill Steele wrote:
>
>>>On Nov 21, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Bill Steele wrote:
>>>
>>>>We have a G4 still running OS 9.2, used mostly for backups. I 
>>>>recently hooked up a LaCie external hard drive and installed the 
>>>>accompanying Silverlining software, and the result seems to have 
>>>>screwed up Applescript's ability to write to files. Scripts that 
>>>>used to work now give error messages.
>>>>
>>>It could be a bad version of the Standard Additions.  There was a 
>>>version in there that didn't work right and wouldn't write to a 
>>>file that didn't exist.
>>
>>Actually happens even if the file does exist.
>>
>Okay.  Then its a problem with the file to alias coercion.
>
>does this work?
>
>set someText to "this is a test"
>set foo to alias "Disk:folder:test"
>set outFile to open for access file foo with write permission
>write someText to outFile starting at 0
>close access outFile
>
>Does it work inside a Finder tell?

None of the above.

Adding the alias coercion results in a compile error, with or without 
Finder tell.

And again, supposedly I still have the same version of Standard 
Additions I had two weeks ago.  Why would Silverlining modify 
Applescript?

I'm going to try reinstalling the system.
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Bill Steele
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