Can't open file

[J. Landman Gay]

On 4/5/05 2:25 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote:

> On Apr 5, 2005, at 12:02 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 
>> If I do this on Win98 it works:
>>
>> get pathToMyFile() -- returns "C:/My Documents/myfile.txt"
>> open file it
>> write "1234" to file it
>> close file it
>>
>> But if I do this, I get "can't open file":
>>
>> get pathToMyFile()
>> put "1234" into url ("file://"&it)
>>
>> Why?
> 
> 
> I don't think you are supposed to have the "//" after "file:" are you?

Urk. Thanks. It was a brain fart I guess, but the funny thing is that it 
has been in my script for a couple of weeks and works okay on Mac OS X 
(which is why I didn't catch it, I suppose.)

So now that I have that working, I want to make the file invisible.  Any 
ideas why this standard snippet is failing:

     replace "/" with "\" in tPath -- this contains what "it" had before
     put "attrib"&& quote & tPath & quote && "-h" into tCommand
     set the hideConsoleWindows to true
     put shell (tCommand) into theError

I get no error, but the file remains visible. The command doesn't work 
from the DOS prompt either.

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