Problems with revcopyfile

[Jonathan Kotthoff]

So what were really saying is that applescript requires the full  
source path, correct?

Jon
On Mar 30, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Jonathan Kotthoff wrote:

> Jan,
>
> I think I am providing the full source path in the target, what  
> about the source? And then why does this work correctly on Windows?
>
> Jonathan
> On Mar 30, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote:
>
>> --- Jonathan Kotthoff <jonkotthoff at clarionstl.com>
>> wrote:
>>> This does not seem like it should be this hard...I
>>> must be missing
>>> something...i am running 2.7 making a simple stack
>>> that will copy a
>>> file to a target on Winows XP and Mac OS X.4...
>>>
>>> here is the code:
>>>
>>> on mouseUp
>>>    -- bring up a standard system "save as" file
>>> selector
>>>
>>>    ask file "Save file as:"
>>> -- if the user cancels, exit without saving
>>>    if it is empty then exit mouseUp
>>>    -- put it into filePath
>>>    put it into filePath
>>> -- Copy file
>>>   revCopyFile "/Content/rubyonrails.pdf",filePath
>>> end mouseUp
>>>
>>> no file is copied to the target folder however...
>>>
>>> anybody have an example of a stack that copies or an
>>> explanation
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance...
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>
>> Hi Jonathan,
>>
>> As the 'revCopyFile' command effectively uses
>> OS-specific means to copy the file (AppleScript on
>> MacOS, shell commands on other platforms), you need to
>> feed it a full path to the source and target file.
>>
>> Of course, if you're not on a Mac or don't need to
>> copy any MacOS 9 - style 'resource fork', you can
>> easily copy the file yourself using:
>>   put URL ("binfile:" & tSourcePath) into URL
>> ("binfile" & tTargetPath)
>>
>> Hope this helped,
>>
>> Jan Schenkel.
>>
>> Quartam Reports for Revolution
>> <http://www.quartam.com>
>>
>> =====
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>> time."  (La Rochefoucauld)
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