On Apr 01, 2013, at 08:59, Bill Steele <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Seems like "path to desktop as string" should have taken care of that. 

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set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "•"
(path to desktop as text) & "someFileName.txt"

  --> "Disk:Users:mine:Desktop:someFileName.txt"

{ Mac OS 10.8.3 }

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Chris