Re: More newbie queries: paths
Re: More newbie queries: paths
- Subject: Re: More newbie queries: paths
- From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 00:34:48 +1000
At 1:10 PM -0600 5/3/02, garbanzito wrote:
in any case, one will still need extra code if a script
might be handed "~/foo" from an external source.
Fine, be that way:
set s to "~/"
do shell script "echo " & s
Unix can do anything. ;)
Damn your black box trickery ;-)
My difficulty does not lie in the fact that unix can do anything, but
that it does it by using one (apparently random) of the umpteen
bucket loads of programs that accompany it. Or via one of the
switches of one of those programs. None of which are known (to me)
nor, may I stress, do they display cute icons by which we can know
them!
Apple once showed us the way past DOS, we now wait for them to learn
their own way past unix. It's all so MCMLXXI, bring on OS MMII!
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