HyperCard: Quotes in Pathname (7/92)

Some of the stacks provided with HyperCard 2.x do not function properly if
the volume name contains quotes (" ").

Quotes in the volume name cause problems in the HyperCard Reference stack
as well as any other stack that gets the Long Name of the stack and tries
to extract a word from it (second word in the case of the Reference stack).

Errors returned will vary from menu not found errors to missing handler
errors like "Can't understand 'FindInTitle'". For the technically
oriented, this is because the Reference stack will never open using the
"HyperCard Help" stack because the wrongStack function in the openstack
command does not function properly -- for reasons stated above.

The solution: Take the quotes out of the volume (HD or floppy) name as
well as any folders in the path.


This article is adapted from the Claris Tech Info database.
Published Date: Feb 19, 2012