Re: mac to unix path names
Re: mac to unix path names
- Subject: Re: mac to unix path names
- From: Carl Albrecht-Buehler <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 08:57:08 -0500
on 05/02/2003 8:17 AM, Ben Waldie wrote:
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Give this a try...
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set theMacOSPath to "Macintosh HD:Users:Shared:"
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set theUnixPath to POSIX path of theMacOSPath
Thanks a whole lot, Ben; that's just about the trick I was looking for! I
have one concern though: This example yields the result of "/Macintosh
HD/Users/Shared/". Is this path correct? Is the Users folder not actually
simply a directory underneath "/"? I tried checking this by opening a
terminal and typing in this path, and get "No such file or directory". This
would make sense because there is no directory by the name of any disk under
"/"
For other disks, this might work; that is to say, in a partitioned hard
drive the path to a folder is not "/VolumeName/Folder/" but rather,
"/Volumes/VolumeName/Folder/" and that's easy enough to concatenate.
However, the startup disk is not a volume that gets stored in "/Volumes/" so
I can't concatenate quite so easily.
Is the correct course of action then to do the POSIX conversion, then check
to see what names the disks have against this result - if the name of the
startup disk is present, then to drop it and if not, to prefix "/Volumes"?
Thanks.
Carl
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