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Overview
This quick reference is an Apple Guide that provides on-screen access
to Appendix A of my AppleScript book (Danny Goodman's AppleScript
Handbook, 2nd edition, [Random House]), plus additional Finder
scripting reference data that I find useful. This Apple Guide is
intended solely as a refresher when you need that quick reminder about
the precise spelling or syntax requirements of a command or language
structure.

You will also find a facility for transferring most syntax definitions
from the Guide to your AppleScript script editor.

Installation
Drag the ?AS Quick Reference? file to the same folder that contains
your AppleScript script editor. The next time you start your script
editor program, the Help menu will contain an item, ?AppleScript Quick
Reference,? which will start this Guide.

If you write AppleScript scripts in multiple programs (e.g., Scripter
and HyperCard), you can place the Guide file in the folder of one of
those programs, and place an alias to the Guide file in the other
folder.

Consult the first two items in the Guide's access window listing for
further instructions and tips about using the Guide.

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#1: AppleScript_QuickReference.sit v.1.0 -(1995)

Also see: [Danny Goodman's Applescript Handbook, Mac OS X Edition
(2005)][1]

Compatibility

As of this writing (early September 1995), Apple Guide runs only on
Macintoshes equipped with System 7.5 or later. An improved version of
the Apple Guide system extension is planned to not only improve the
speed of Apple Guides appearing on screen, but to allow the use of
Guides on Macs equipped with System 7.0 and 7.1.

Since you must be scripting with AppleScript to be interested in this
quick reference in the first place, I'll assume you also have the
requisite AppleScript system software installed on your Mac.

The other significant requirement for using this Guide to its fullest
is the installation of a scripting addition (OSAX) called ?Jon?s
Commands? by Jon Pugh. This OSAX is available from every AppleScript-
related on-line library, as well as on the disk accompanying the 2nd
edition of my AppleScript Handbook. Be sure this OSAX is copied to the
Scripting Additions folder located inside your Extensions folder.

  [1]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/vintage-applescript-books

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