[Pythonmac-SIG] rewritten documentation for OSA

[John W Baxter]

At 11:25 +0000 1/19/2002, Michael J. Barber wrote:
>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?

A very good AppleScript information source is Bill Cheeseman's AppleScript
Sourcebook
http://www.applescriptsourcebook.com/

>From this page
http://www.applescriptsourcebook.com/applescript/applescript140.html
there, one learns (search for dialect)
that the separate English Dialect file went away with AppleScript 1.4.0
(Mac OS 9.0).  (A version or two later, AppleScript would crash if there
were any folder inside the Scripting Additions folder, including the empty
Dialects folder.)

>From the page for Applescript 1.3.7, one learns that the English Dialect
file was adjusted for that version...obviously still present then.

The demise of English Dialect falls into my "too long ago to bother
remembering, so I'll look it up" category.

  --John

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John Baxter   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA