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...
>
>
>
>
> Back in 2006 I wrote this script for Eudora users
>
>       <http://bd8.com/eudora/scripts/#searcheudorasettings>
>
> 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.
>
> 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