MAC OS X Problems

[Klaus Major]

Bon jour Yves,

> Le mercredi, 9 juil 2003,  10:52 Europe/Brussels, Klaus Major a crit 
> :
>
>> Bon jour Yves,
>>
>> any special reason why my (working!) code snippet with "get shell..." 
>> does not work for you?
>> Less code than with AppleScript ;-)
>>
>>>
>
> Hello Klaus
>
> Yes there is a problem

I knew it wouldn't be that easy... ;-)

> when I use a path as
>
> "/users/<myname>/aaaa/bbb/ccc/ddd//fff/<folderName>"
>
> it doesn't work
>
> seems that the path is too long

It's not the long path, it's the diacriticals in the name of the  
folder.

Work with longer paths if there are no diacriticals...

> all the previous folders do exist : 
> "/users/<myname>/aaaa/bbb/ccc/ddd//fff
>
> but if I add the <foldername> with diacriticals, doesn't work...
> when I use

I did some tests and it will work, but only if the path does not 
contain diacriticals.
They may appear in the "foldername", but not in the path...

This worked here:

get shell("mkdir" && $HOME & "/aaaa/bbb/ccc/ddd/eee/fff/rptition")


This didn't:

get shell("mkdir" && $HOME & "/aaaa/bbb/ccc/ddd//fff/rptition")

Same error as in your example...

> get shell(....)
> answer it
>
> it = a message in 3 lines: folder doesn't exist...
> try and let me know....
> thanks.

This is strange indeed, but as Scott pointed out it's Apples fault and 
they are
going to workaround this in the next version/update...

Until then you really might have to use AppleScript...

I am rather unexperienced in AS so i leave this problem to another 
helpful soul ;-)

> Greetings.
>
> Yves COPPE
> yvescoppe at skynet.be

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
www.major-k.de