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 19:28:50 -0800
On 12/12/01 7:13 PM, "Greg Back" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Michelle Steiner at <email@hidden> wrote:
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> I
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> don't think it was case sensitive with 1.6 and earlier.
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I think you are right ;)
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"Imac OS 9:" as alias
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-->alias "iMac OS 9:"
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"iMac OS 9:" as alias
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-->alias "iMac OS 9:"
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AS 1.6, SE 1.6 OS 9.2.1
I mentioned yesterday that 'alias as string' was returning international
text, not plain strings. I think we're seeing one result of this. Another
result, as I said then, is that the Finder can't cope with this sort of
string (international text) at all: you have to coerce it to 'as Unicode
text' before the Finder will accept it (although I think it still accepts
plain non-international strings) . I hope that the AppleScript team and the
Finder AppleScript team resolve their differences eventually...
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Paul Berkowitz