How to access a file on a remote computer

[Peter Haworth]

I'm almost there.

The reason I'm looking into this is because I'm setting the filename of a
player control to the name of a mp3 file on a remote computer.

I thought I had it all working but the player control does not like
filenames with an ampersand in them.

I tried escaping the ampersand with a "\" character (that's what I see if I
drag the filename into a Terminal window) but still no joy.

Same problem with filenames including an apostrophe. I'm guessing there are
other characters that cause the same problem

Any ideas?

Pete
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On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> Thanks Kay and Kee, your suggestions put me on the right track.
>
> Kay: there is a mount command available though Terminal but I've never
> used it so don;t know if it would do what you're suggesting.
>
> Pete
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> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 3:39 AM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Kee,
>>
>> that had me confused and I looked a little deeper. It appears that
>> I've just been lucky in the simple URL way I've been accessing files
>> across my LAN - this is as tested on OS X 10.9.5.
>>
>> The URL method I posted earlier, and the open file for read methods do
>> NOT seem to work unless the actual network folder the file resides in
>> is mounted on your system - i.e. the Eject symbol needs to present not
>> just the server and or folder icon visible. After a quick test the
>> simplest way I've found within LC to mount the network folder/file and
>> get the exact path name is to use - answer folder/file
>>
>> answer file "Choose a file:"  --navigate to a network TEXT file to test
>> put "file:" & it into tFilePath
>> put URL tFilePath into msg
>>
>> For ages I've been using LC to 'do as AppleScript' to tell BBEdit to
>> open a network file. I've then been using the 'put URL xxxx into tVar'
>> and 'put tContent into URL xxxx' without a hiccup. I didn't realise
>> that LC needed the file to be mounted first and BBEdit was doing it
>> automatically for me.
>>
>> Does anyone know if there is a command to force OS X to mount a folder
>> that you have appropriate access rights to? I can think of a million
>> reasons why you would want to bypass the 'answer folder/file' step. It
>> would be nice if either the  put URL, or open file methods
>> automatically mounted the folder, or a 'mount fiolder' command that
>> acted like a faceless 'answer folder'; you gave it a folder path and
>> it mounted just like answer folder/file is doing now but without the
>> dialog box.
>>
>> If no one knows of a faceless way to mount a folder on OS X I can put
>> in an enhancement request.
>>
>> Do those on Win and Linux have automatic mounting of network
>> folders/files or is this a problem on those platforms as well?
>>
>> Oh and one last thing. One MAJOR difference between the URL method and
>> the open file for read method. If you use open file for read, whilst
>> ever it is open if you try and unmount the server/folder, i.e. click
>> on the Eject icon, you will get a System warning telling you "The disk
>> xxxxx couldn't be ejected because LiveCode is using it". With the URL
>> method it is possible to Eject the server/folder without any warning
>> so may unwittingly stop your stack from doing what it's suppose to.
>>
>> I think I better go back and change my URL method to open file for read.
>>
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