On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Robby Findler > <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:34 AM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: >>> Not that it matters, but did you try to see if it's the file >>> permissions? >> >> Oh, they are! >> >> [...] >> >> And that was it!! >> >> If I run: >> >> $ xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/r/doc/search/index.html >> >> then osascript works again! >> [...] >> >> ... I don't know the ramifications of just calling "xattr" from inside >> DrRacket to fix things up. It may be better to just create the file in >> the user's directory instead. > > That (the first thing) sounds like a very bad idea, and one that will > most likely fail in a case of a non-private machine. The second is also > pretty bad since you'd be exluding a central setup in such a situation. > (Not that I see any reason to have a lab of Macs...)
We have labs of macs here at IU. > And this is why I said that it's not really relevant -- AFAICT, the fact > that things are setup in a way that prevents passing queries and > fragments means that you just have to deal with it rather than try to > play games with the filesystem. Could we just write a file with the query embedded in it, and open that? Sam _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev