Haha, okay, I stand corrected. :) There are HFS paths and POSIX paths. Whatever it is it's mighty annoying, especially when there seem to be a couple different types of file object for each path type.
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Rob McBroom <[email protected]>wrote: > On Jul 31, 2012, at 1:16 AM, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: > > there are NeXTStep paths (Macintosh HD:some:folder:) > > > Whoa, whoa, whoa. Don’t pin that silliness on NeXTstep. :-) NeXTstep has > always been Unix-based and has always used the type of path we’re used to > seeing now. The colon separated paths are from Apple’s HFS and were used by > MacOS. > > The reason you see HFS paths in AppleScript is that it was created by > Apple. And technically, since we’re still on HFS+, that *is* the path. > It’s just nicely obscured by a POSIX path in most contexts. > > Everything good about our computers (and our phones, for that matter) > comes from NeXT, not Apple. :-) > > -- > Rob McBroom > <http://www.skurfer.com/> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups Quicksilver group. 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 > https://groups.google.com/d/forum/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Quicksilver group. 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 https://groups.google.com/d/forum/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en
