On Jan 9, 2011, at 7:05 AM, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:

> 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

A path as string, resulting from patching a folder name to some new filename. 

Bill Steele
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