At 10:22p -0500 05/17/2003, Eric Schult didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: >I'm just accustoming myself to scripting in Jaguar. A lot of my OS 9.x >scripts employ Tanaka's OSAX to readfromfile and writetofile, etc. I >don't think Tanaka's has been ported to OS X. That's correct, because it was written in HyperCard and only gets compiled for MacOS. >Is there an equivalent OSAX I can use, or is the open for access >command in Standard Additions my best alternative? I always thought >the syntax for open for access was kind of icky, but I guess I can >get used to it if I have to. I usually used Tanaka's osax for MT Replace, but Extra Suites has a replace command (not case sensitive, though -- gotta see if he'll add that). What exactly did you use the read/write commands for? maybe we can help you duplicate the functionality... -boo