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 16:48:39 -0800
On 12/12/01 4:38 PM, I wrote:
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I believe that 'file specification' is being "discouraged", if not quite
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deprecated, in OS 10.1 and onwards (AS 1.6). It's more like a legacy term
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now, and is broken in some places (which is why it is discouraged). The real
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coding for 'file' now is something called fileURL, and the term 'file' in
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pure AppleScript is now coerced under the hood to this fileURL. This was in
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the release notes for AS 1.7, and I may be slightly off-mark here but it's
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more or less as I recall.
That should say:
This was in the release notes for AS 1.6, and I may be slightly off-mark
here but it's more or less as I recall.
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Paul Berkowitz