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An AppleScript to help open Windows-style file links
Authored by: roncross@cox.net on Feb 26, '05 01:43:18AM

This doesn't really work for me. In the email, the file is of the type

<file:///\\Amber\Letters\Doctors\moo%20at%20%home.ppt

These are not alias. I have downloaded WinShortcutter and it works if I take a file off the window exchange server and double click on it. It doesn't work if I double click on the window file format above.

The applescript is the only way I know how to do this right now. I will continue to work on it to improve it. The applescript is easy for me since all I do is to highlight the file url and hit my hotkey. Other people at work has used the script without any problem.

By the way, you can change the script to also work with Apple Mail, however, the script will have to be changed slightly to get it to work with Apple Mail

thanks for the suggestions.

RLC

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rlc



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