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Bruce Robertson <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:30:37 -0700
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> 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>

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