Re: [OSX]path to modem scripts folder
Re: [OSX]path to modem scripts folder
- Subject: Re: [OSX]path to modem scripts folder
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:09:22 +1000
On 12/7/01 8:14 PM +1000, Peter Gort, email@hidden, wrote:
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The AppleScript phrase "path to modem scripts folder", if executed by a
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user, returns "That folder doesn't exist and you don't have permission
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to create it." (blunt isn't it? <grin>)
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If logged in as root, executing this line in script editor creates a
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folder called "Modem Scripts", at /System/Library, and returns
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"Macintosh HD:System:Library:Modem Scripts:" ignoring the default modem
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scrips folder at "Macintosh HD:Library:Modem Scripts:" where all the
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factory installed ones go. I suggested to Mac OS X feedback that the
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call be implemented to return the globally availabe folder at
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/Library/Modem Scripts, and an additional item be added for "User Modem
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Scripts folder" to return ~/Library/Modem Scripts/ if that is necessary,
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though I don't see why it should be. As I understand it, the
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/System/Library/Modem Scripts/ should not be accessed by user level
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apps anyway, so there is no need to add a reference to it for
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AppleScript.
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Comments anybody?
It does seem an odd default for AS to look in, but I suspect we're going to
have to get used to using the new "from" parameter all the time, as in "path
to modem scripts folder from local domain". See
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http://www.apple.com/applescript/MacOSX_Overview/changes/02.htm> for more
info.
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden