At 06:09 p -0500 12/06/2010, Bill Steele didst inscribe upon an 
electronic papyrus:

>On Dec 6, 2010, at 3:48 PM, Tom Bender wrote:
>
>>  Is it possible that the single quote in ³Bill¹sHD² is not ASCII? 
>>Does it change if TEP is already open when the script runs?
>
>It is ASCII, and no other script has ever cared, and no.
>
>But it turns out it did work with alias, once I found the right 
>finicky syntax. You can't say "foo as alias."  Has to be "alias foo."


What was foo? Was it a path string or a filespec?

(I've been doing 'alias pathstring' since System 7.)


-boo