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Re: Characters in a file name - some progress
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Re: Characters in a file name - some progress


  • Subject: Re: Characters in a file name - some progress
  • From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 10:06:32 -0700

On 7/7/04 9:15 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:

> On 7/7/04 7:27 AM, "Adam K. Wuellner" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>> Indeed. I thought I was thinking too hard. "text m thru n" doesn't
>> care about text item delimiters, which is preferable.
>> Although I'd write it "m through n", because "thru", well.... :-)
>
> Really? See what happens when you do and then compile the script. Is it
> really worth it?

Whoops! I remember (I think -:)) that it used to compile as 'thru' do so
back when I started scripting, maybe OS 8.6. I never liked it either. Or
maybe I've just forgotten. It serves me right for not testing. I get
'through' now in OS 10.3.4 too. Sorry.

--
Paul Berkowitz
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