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  • Subject: do shell script woes
  • From: Lorin Rivers <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 21:21:26 -0600

This simple shell command works swimmingly from the command line in Panther, yet does nothing when called from my AppleScript.

set this_path to "/Users/lrivers/Desktop/cabs/06369022.cab"
--try
do shell script "/sw/bin/cabextract " & this_path

Suggestions?
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Lorin Rivers
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