Frontier file path problems

[Emmanuel. M. Decarie]

>On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 19:47:23 +0000, Douglas Wagner wrote:
>>I can type "~/Documentation/DocServer" into an open file dialog in
>>OSX, but I can't use the same convention in Frontier.
>
>you could try playing with sys.unixShellCommand() to get this info.
>
>I know "echo ~/" returns "/Users/greg/" at my command-line -- there 
>may be other useful Unix commands I'm not aware of to return 
>standard directory paths.

You could use (and I think its more kosher):
string.popTrailing (sys.unixShellCommand("echo $HOME"), "\n")
-- /Users/mem

In AppleScript, you could do the following:

-- HOME FOLDER
path to "cusr" from user domain
-- alias "Mac OS X:Users:userName:"

Cheers
-Emmanuel
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