ANOTHER bug in remote apple events..

[Charles Dyer]

On 06 Apr 2007, at 03:43:19, Jim Witte wrote:

>   I just discovered that to access files remotely from an  
> applescript in *OSX*, you have to use a COLON as the file  
> delimiter, not the SLASH as is standard in all flavors of *NIX  
> including Darwin?  This is progress? !!
>

Ahhh... Macs have used colons as delimiters since, well, since at  
least 1985. I'm not sure what the original Mac OS from 1984 used. It  
didn't have, frex, real folders, and it's been a real long time and  
my old 'phonebook' edition of _Inside Macintosh_ is buried deep in a  
box in the garage and I'm NOT going to go dig it out. In 1985,  
though, Apple made some changes, and the Mac OS actually became  
usable on large volumes. (Where 'large' in those days meant '5 MB' or  
maybe as much as '10 MB', for those who had money to throw away...)