Re: POSIX file usage

Subject: Re: POSIX file usage
From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 15:31:36 -0700

On Friday, August 30, 2002, at 12:25 AM, Adriaan Tijsseling wrote:

set dpath to ((path to preferences folder) as string) & "somefile.txt"
set upath to (POSIX path of dpath)
do shell script "open " & upath

Well, in my example I used the Preferences folder, but that is not always the case. What if it is in "/Users/foo/somdir/"?

Greetings Adriaan,

There is a trick for getting folders not listed in the Standard Additions dictionary. You can use the following form with different keywords:

POSIX path of (path to "usrs")
POSIX path of (path to "cusr")
POSIX path of (path to "sdat")

These keywords are adapted from the enumerations in header file called "Folders.h" which is available immediately to you if you have installed the Developer Tools or from several places on the internet (perhaps on Chris Nebel's idisk as well).

Cheers,

Philip Aker
http://www.aker.ca
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