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Re: Jon's Commands
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Chris Page <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:12:23 -0700
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On Apr 29, 2008, at 00:20 AM, Shane Stanley wrote:

> (b) the Finder is unreliable

I'd really appreciate it if you could elaborate.

> (c) System Events is too fussy about what it does and doesn't  
> accept, depending on the OS
> version.


Do you mean in terms of aliases vs. file descriptors vs. file objects?

Is this mostly about what it will currently accept or about the fact  
that older system versions don't support some of the newer stuff?

-- 
Chris Page - AppleScripter

  The other, other AppleScript Chris

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