BeeRich <[email protected]> sez:

>That resulted in a "doesn't understand the open message".

Should work; what was the exact text of your script? (and, did you replace
my example path with a valid path? :)


>If I want to avoid the POSIX syntax, do I use colons?

Yes; in that case you should write the path in traditional AppleScript
fashion and use 'alias', like this:

===
set myF to alias "Hard Drive:Users:pwoolsey:Desktop:foo.txt"
...
===


Regards,

 Patrick Woolsey
==
Bare Bones Software, Inc.                      <http://www.barebones.com>
P.O. Box 1048, Bedford, MA 01730-1048

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the 
"BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
[email protected]
For more options, visit this group at
<http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en>
If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, 
please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group.
Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>

Reply via email to