Re: In praise of "do script" (and the AppleScript team)
Re: In praise of "do script" (and the AppleScript team)
- Subject: Re: In praise of "do script" (and the AppleScript team)
- From: Charles Arthur <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:18:30 +0100
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 21:19:52 -0700, John W Baxter <email@hidden> wrote:
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Hmmm...I was surprised to see that the result of
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tell application "Finder"
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set x to file "Eudora 5.1.1b23 (OSX)" of desktop as string
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end tell
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quoted form of POSIX path of x
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be Unicode (per Script Debugger's AEPrint setting in the result window):
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utxt($0027002F00550073006500720073002F006A006F0068006E002F004400650073006B00740
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06F0070002F004500750064006F0072006100200035002E0031002E0031006200320033002000280
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04F0053005800290027$)
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In "source language" it's the expected
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"'/Users/john/Desktop/Eudora 5.1.1b23 (OSX)'"
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I guess Apple really is getting serious about Unicode. ;-)
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--John (two guesses as to what I was just doing ;-))
Was it asking yourself "Why did I install this app on my desktop, instead
of in /Applications?"
Charles
(obEudora5.1b23: annoyingly, it insists on using your internet panel
settings, rather than the settings from the Documents folder like it says
it will. And I miss being able to have multiple settings files from a
single user. No, I don't mean personalities.)
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