Nope. I still got this.

Expected end of line, etc. but found “end tell”.

Here is the revised one with the quotes. it seems to barf after the activate 
thing.

tell application "skype" to activate
end tell
do shell script "./clisk"


On Jan 12, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Jon Cohn wrote:

> You are missing quotes around the shell command that you are attempting to 
> run.
> 
> Also this might be a case where you need to use the terminal I am not sure.
> 
> But it will compile if you use a double quote that is the next  char "
> 
> The quotes need to surround the words after script.
> 
> I  often put  all punctuation on while working with AppleScript.
> 
> Jonathan 
> 
> On Jan 12, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> 
>> No I looked. Here is the script. I'm confused as to why the error accured.
>> 
>> try
>> tell application "skype" to activate
>> do shell script ./clisk
>> end try
>> 
>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 7:36 AM, Jon Cohn wrote:
>> 
>>> You probably have an extra character in the Try.  I generally interact with 
>>> the error message and find the quoted  text of what it found and then 
>>> single  character through that.
>>> 
>>> Jon
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