My script works on Mac OS X and Win98, but not Win2000. (OS 9 not yet tested.) First I use TrFile-CreateFolder, then I use TrFile-FileSpec To FullPath and end up with a path like this: "C:WINDOWSDesktopIssue 25 Export" and the folder is created on the desktop. This works on Win98 and on 2000, the file path is different, but that's to be expected, and the folder gets created as expected.

The problem comes in the next part of the script:

Set Field [gFile, External ("TrFile-CreateFile", gPath & gName & ".txt")]

Perform Script ["TroiFile Handle error codes"]

1. Why does this script fail on Win2000? If it can create a folder, why not a file?

2. Why doesn't it return an error?

Well, duh... never mind. I had remembered that Status(CurrentPlatform) returns 1 if the current platform is the Mac OS 9 and earlier, and -1 if the current platform is Mac OS X, or 2 if the platform is Windows 98 or Windows Me, but I forgot that it's -2 if the platform is Windows NT/2000/XP.

So I had been tacking a colon on the end of my path instead of a backslash. Of course that was the last think I thought to check...

Abs(Status (CurrentPlatform)) returns 2 for any version of Windows.