On Sep 24, 2008, at 7:53 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Bob Sneidar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I thought that if you wanted to refer to an absolute path in unix
you would
use /volumes/Macintosh HD/Applications. This is of course for the
Mac OS.
Perhaps other Unix variants use something else for the mount points
besides
volumes, but the idea is the same.
Sorry, you mean OSX not Mac OS 9. I've just checked, my reference to
the HD
being partitioned is incorrect, well only slightly if you consider a
normal
HD is a single partition. On OSX for an absolute path you can use
either
"/volumes/mac hd/Applications" or "/Applications" - but you can't
use "/mac
hd/Applications". What is important is that both what the Docs say,
and the
examples they give are incorrect for OSX, but as Sarah has pointed
out they
are correct if you are dealing with the old Classic Mac OS. No idea
for Win
or Linux.
It's not surprising that the examples in the docs are correct if you
are working in the Mac Classic environment, since, to my knowledge,
RunRev (or at least Jeanne DeVoto, who wrote the first version of the
docs) was working primarily in the Mac OS classic environment at the
time the docs were first written.
I'll admit, this threw me for a loop when I first switched over to OS
X. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why my file paths didn't
work, until I figured out the Unix/OS X convention of "/" referring to
the boot volume.
For an introduction to file paths, written for beginning Rev coders, see
http://revolution.byu.edu/extfiles/exFiles.php
I've tried here to distill my sometimes painfully-acquired knowledge
to help my students avoid the pitfalls I encountered as a noobie. As
always, if anyone comes across inaccuracies, I'd love to get feedback.
Regards,
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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