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Re: Creating a folder on the desktop (recap)

Subject: Re: Creating a folder on the desktop (recap)
From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 12:56:29 -0700

On Sep 8, 2005, at 9:31 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:

I'm guessing that while there are constructs in AS to get the
user's home directory etc,  there's no way to read arbitrary
environment variables directly; you have to go through the shell with
something like (do shell script "echo \"$BLAH\"") ... is that true?

No. "system attribute" was extended some time ago to look for environment variables if the Gestalt selector lookup fails:

	system attribute "HOME" --> "/Users/me"
	system attribute "SHELL" --> "/bin/sh"


--Chris Nebel
AppleScript and Automator Engineering

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