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John Delacour <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 9 Jan 2011 13:44:39 +0000
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At 06:51 -0600 09/01/2011, Christopher Stone wrote:

>set unixPath to "/Volumes/Stone'sHD/Chris's Stuff 2.txt"
>
>...
>** Note that in the Unix path I haven't bothered to escape the 
>spaces or quote the string.  Ha; TEP doesn't like the quoted form.

I note that you _have_ quoted the string.  The only time you would 
escape spaces etc. is in the command line where you have not enclosed 
the path in quotes.

What are people doing still using a text editor with a 
unicode-ignorant text engine?!  Tom Bender's work was invaluable in 
the old days but free TextWrangler, if you can't afford BBEdit, is 
far more powerful and very up-to-date.

JD

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