Re: Alias's original item
Re: Alias's original item
- Subject: Re: Alias's original item
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 10:45:28 -0700
At 2:25 PM -0500 6/19/03, Wallace, William wrote:
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Does anybody know of a way I can use applescript (either on its own or via a
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3rd party scriptable utility or osax) to examine an alias (which will most
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likely be pointing to a file on a network server) and get the path to its
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original item *WITHOUT* having to mount the remote volume upon which the
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original resides?
Jon's Commands has an "alias information" command which does this, however, since the didn't implement some of the alias manager interfaces in Carbon, this command hasn't made it to X yet. It works fine in 9 however.
http://www.seanet.com/~jonpugh/
Jon
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