*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Sorry Don I didn't think about OS 9 and SimpleText isn't AppleScriptable.
However, I would suggest a terrific shareware text editor "Tex-Edit Plus" <http://www.tex-edit.com/texedit.html> The following script will work with it. (Same script as BBEdit) ===== tell application "PowerMail" set theMessages to current messages repeat with msg in theMessages set s to source of msg tell application "Tex-Edit Plus" make new window set contents of front window to s end tell end repeat end tell ===== -- Andy Fragen On Fri, Mar 12, 2004, Don V. Zahniser said: > >Andy - > >It probably would have helped if I had included my usual text clipping >about my system. Those of us who are still using PowerMail with Mac OS 9 >or earlier don't have TextEdit. I suggested AppleWorks since it would >benefit many of us late-bloomers. True, it would be overkill, but I >would guess that AppleWorks has pretty good representation within the >Classic OS user community. > >I'm currently trying to figure out how to adapt your scripts to work in >iText (a freeware text editor with AppleScript support). Maybe with some >quality time over the weekend, I can get my brain to function better. > > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > Don V. Zahniser > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Composed on Powerbook 1400cs, 117MHz, 64MB RAM, Mac OS 8.6 > >On Friday, March 12, 2004, Andy Fragen said: > >>Maybe, but why? If you don't have BBEdit just use the script for >>TextEdit. Fundamentally I wouldn't write this script for Word either, >>it's overkill. Why use AppleWorks when TextEdit is all you really need? > > >
