Absolute File Paths - Bug or bad Docs

[Devin Asay]

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