Absolute File Paths - Bug or bad Docs
Devin Asay
devin_asay at byu.edu
Thu Sep 25 12:30:12 EDT 2008
On Sep 25, 2008, at 9:51 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Devin Asay wrote:
>> It's not surprising that the examples in the docs are correct if you
>> are working in the Mac Classic environment, since, to my knowledge,
>> RunRev (or at least Jeanne DeVoto, who wrote the first version of the
>> docs) was working primarily in the Mac OS classic environment at the
>> time the docs were first written.
>>
>> I'll admit, this threw me for a loop when I first switched over to OS
>> X.
>
> Me too. It's a good thing Apple has such a loyal following, given
> their
> disregard for backward compatibility.
>
> As for Rev, it seems that entry could use an updated example, ditching
> the Classic example in favor of one for the only currently-supported
> Mac
> OS, and update the description as well.
>
> Has anyone here submitted that request to the RQQC?
Done.
http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=7214
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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