Re: Why doesn't 'alias' error when the file no longer exists?
Re: Why doesn't 'alias' error when the file no longer exists?
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't 'alias' error when the file no longer exists?
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 16:04:49 -0500
on 12/18/00 2:13 PM, Emmanuel at email@hidden wrote:
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At 16:46 +0100 18/12/00, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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> I always believed that the 'alias' form would error if the file no longer
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> existed on the computer, so I would frequently error trap for it near the
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> beginning of a script
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Me too - and I guess we were right with 8.6.
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This will certainly induce impredictible behaviors of lots of scripts
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written "` la" 8.6, and I would like to thank warmly Paul for having
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published the bug on this list.
I came in late on this thread, but isn't the correct Finder syntax to get
"alias file"? This errors properly for me:
tell application "Finder" to get alias file "Sucia:dummy"
Or are you talking about something unrelated?
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