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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 17:32:27 -0700

On Sep 9, 2005, at 5:03 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:

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"


Cool!!

In the unlikely event that an envar is masked by a like-named system
attribute, fallback is do shell script?

Yes. It's highly unlikely, though -- Gestalt selectors are all four letters long by definition.


--Chris Nebel
AppleScript and Automator Engineering

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  >Re: Creating a folder on the desktop (recap) (From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>)
  >Re: Creating a folder on the desktop (recap) (From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>)




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