Re: Difference between "as alias" and "as file specification"?
Re: Difference between "as alias" and "as file specification"?
- Subject: Re: Difference between "as alias" and "as file specification"?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:38:51 -0800
On 12/12/01 3:13 PM, "Chris Page" <email@hidden> wrote:
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So, generally you want to use aliases. File specifications can be faster to
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resolve, but you really only want to use them for short durations.
I believe that 'file specification' is being "discouraged", if not quite
deprecated, in OS 10.1 and onwards (AS 1.6). It's more like a legacy term
now, and is broken in some places (which is why it is discouraged). The real
coding for 'file' now is something called fileURL, and the term 'file' in
pure AppleScript is now coerced under the hood to this fileURL. This was in
the release notes for AS 1.7, and I may be slightly off-mark here but it's
more or less as I recall.
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Paul Berkowitz