Re: 256 char limit on alias path?
Re: 256 char limit on alias path?
- Subject: Re: 256 char limit on alias path?
- From: Andy Wylie <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 22:21:18 +1200
on 1/4/02 9:01 PM, Ryan Hofschneider at email@hidden wrote:
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Is this a well-known problem?
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Dunno, only 256 ;) classic Mac OS users have been limited to 32.
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Any suggestions for a work around? And
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maybe a related question: in my example above, is it possible to coerce
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'dir' to a typeFileURL and return that instead?
here's a classic way...
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set myStr to someAlias
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {":"}
set x to (myStr's text items)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"/"}
set x to x as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
set typeFileURL to "file:///" & x
_____________________________ Andy
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