On 6/4/09 7:30 AM, "Peter J. Hartmann" wrote: > is there a coercion to convert a script object to text? > Previously, it seems, it was possible to load a script from a file and > coerce it to a string using "as string" or "as text". > > Does not seem to work anymore. > > Any clues? Peter, if you're okay with calling a shell script, this works: set scriptToDecompile to "Mac HD:Full:PathTo:TheScript" do shell script "osadecompile " & quoted form of ¬ POSIX path of scriptToDecompile HTH, Stan C.