[Pythonmac-SIG] rewritten documentation for OSA

[Michael J. Barber]

On Friday, January 18, 2002, at 04:53  PM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote:

> Michael --
>
> First off, great job.  I actually tried my hand at something like this 
> a while ago, and it really is hard.  This document makes a lot of sense 
> out of some tricky stuff.
>
Thanks, but a lot of credit must go to the original author (whoever that 
may be - Jack Jansen?). I mostly just reorganized, and added a little 
that was new.

> I've read your comments, and I have some answers to the questions you 
> raised:
>
Most everything is clear, except for this:

>> If you want to re-create the StdSuite modules,
>> you should look in one of two places. On older systems you will find 
>> the
>> <!-- How old is that?  It is so in 8.6, did the change come with 
>> 9?  -->
>
> AFAIK, the "English Dialect" file was removed with AppleScript 1.3.4, 
> which shipped with MacOS 8.5, so I belive that generating StdSuites 
> should be done from the AppleScript extension itself in all post-8.5 
> systems.  I've you've upgraded 8.5 from 8.0, the Dialect file may still 
> be floating around, but it is out of date.
>
Are you certain? My PowerBook came with 8.6. I still have that old 
system folder (probably don't need that any more, but...), and I've got 
AppleScript 1.3.7 and the dialect file. I can't imagine how I'd have 
gotten the dialect file if it was done away with for 8.5?

>
> Hope all that makes sense to you; let me know if you have any questions.
>
It definitely did make sense, thanks. I've made some changes based on 
your suggestions. The new file is at 
<http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~mjbarber/applescript.html>.

Michael