ShowURL to mount file server?

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Hello all,

A code that I inherited uses ShowURL to mount a file server:

ShowURL “afp://IP Address Here/MyServer”

It’s known that afp is old. But why ShowURL? (Of course, it’s deprecated, too. New is System.GotoURL()).

Thanks.

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ShowURL simply asks the operating system to do something with the URL. if there is a service that can open it, then it will.

It also works with ftp:// and ssh:// for connecting to FTP servers via Finder and SSH servers via Terminal.

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Thank you, Greg.

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