Frontier file path problems

[Sam DeVore]

On 3/19/02 12:47 PM, "Douglas Wagner" <hdmw at mac.com> wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> I keep DocServer here:
> {"OSX:Users:douglas:Documentation:DocServer:"}
> rather than here:
> {"OSX:Users:douglas:Applications:Frontier:Documentation:DocServer:"}
> 
> I can type "~/Documentation/DocServer" into an open file dialog in OSX,
> but I can't use the same convention in Frontier.
> 
> e.g In a modification of <system.menu.scripts.openHelpPage>
> I've added the line below to the <getLocalPath> handler so Frontier can
> find DocServer.
> localPaths = localPaths + ("~/Documentation" + pc + folderNames[i] +
> pc + fname)
> 
> However, Frontier doesn't find the directory because it doesn't resolve
> the path.
> 
> How does one get around this problem?
> 
You need to remember that frontier uses the old file conventions and naming
schemes for the file verbs so you would need to reference the files that
way.  You could try putting an alias to the file in the expected location
and see if that works.

Sam D
> DW
> 
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