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FSSpec, FileURL

Technical Note TN2022
The Death of typeFSSpec: moving along to typeFileURL

The FSSpec data type is not suitable for encoding information about files in Mac OS X. Most importantly, FSSpecs cannot encode long or Unicode file names such as those used in the Mac OS X file system. In addition, Directory ID numbers and volume reference numbers are application specific in Mac OS X.

For the most part, Alias records encoded in Apple events provide suitable remedy for the shortcomings of FSSpec records, except for one case - references to files that have yet to be created. In these cases, the proposed typeFileURL is the best way to provide a such a pre-determined file reference.

So... does AS handle this transparently, or should we coerce paths to
<<class furl>> instead of to <<class fss >> (file specification), or
should we do like JD and coerce to POSIX?

thanks,
-boo
[1] http://developer2.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2022.html
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