Re: Info for question
Re: Info for question
- Subject: Re: Info for question
- From: "Serge Belleudy-d'Espinose" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 12:10:06 +0200
At 16:00 -0700 15/06/01, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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What won't work is just the filePath string. So why did it work for you and
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everyone else except that one user? Because you all must have either Jon's
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Commands and/or Akua Sweets osax installed, and that user does not. Jon's
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and Akua have silent coercions of string pathnames to alias and file
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specifications, which operate even when you don't call for them.
No Jon's/Akua here. Even removed Satimage:
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set xpath to "" & (path to system folder)
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-- "Diamant:System Folder:"
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class of xpath
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-- string
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info for xpath
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-- {name:"System Folder" etc.
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info for file xpath
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-- {name:"System Folder" etc.
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info for alias xpath
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-- {name:"System Folder" etc.
'info for' straight has always worked for me 8.6->9.1
Serge
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