On Dec 6, 2010, at 3:48 PM, Tom Bender wrote:

> Is it possible that the single quote in “Bill’sHD” 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."

Apparently inconsistent with -- or at least fussier than -- Leopard and others preceding. 

Bill Steele
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