On Jan 09, 2011, at 06:05, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: >> On Dec 6, 2010, at 3:48 PM, Tom Bender wrote: >> 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.) ______________________________________________________________________ Both alias and simple string path syntaxes work perfectly in Mac OS 10.6.6: set fileAlias to alias "Stone'sHD:Chris's Stuff 1.txt" set unixPath to "/Volumes/Stone'sHD/Chris's Stuff 2.txt" tell application "Tex-Edit Plus" activate open fileAlias open unixPath end tell ** 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. -- Chris