Re: Is there any way to simplify this?
Re: Is there any way to simplify this?
- Subject: Re: Is there any way to simplify this?
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:17:14 -0800
On 1/20/01 12:55 PM, Cal <email@hidden> wrote:
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>But your solution still has the " set thefilelist to ..." line typed
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>twice, which is what I was trying to avoid.
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Sorry...I considered the tell part separate from the set part. I see
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the compound statement as a set command with a tell prefix -- to me,
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the tell part steers the set command to its target, but it's
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essentially a set command. (To each his/her own.) I read "I had to
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type the tell statement twice" as a request to avoid duplicating the
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tell portion, not the essence (the set part)...and...that's not what
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you wanted.
*nod* I can see the confusion; I should have worded it better.
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>Frankly, I can't see anything else that would return an error other than
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>the folder being undefined, and that should happen only the first time
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>the script is run.
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Other File Manager errors could be returned, such as I/O errors.
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Take a look at errors -34 through -49 (or -49 through -34, depending
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on your polarity), particularly -36 (I/O error).
I see your point, but if any of those errors happen, I'll find out soon
enough when I try to locate the folder.
--Michelle
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