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Re: neat trick with Opener



Cliff Matthews (no relation :-) writes:
>	Executor-MSW can be run from the command line as long as it's  
>pathname is fully qualified (i.e. starts with "/").  Similarly if the  
>next argument is an executable app then that application will be run  
>at start up, similarly if the arguments after that are the proper  
>type documents for the executable then they'll be opened on startup.   
>I think this should be enough for some resourceful soul to get things  
>going.

I can't tell you how pleased I am to read this... I hadn't gotten 
around to actually attempting to run a Mac app from the command line,
but I had hoped it was possible.  A couple of questions:

  1) Can you give us a list of the available command line options
     for Executor-MSW, and a rough idea of what each one does?  All
     I was able to find in the User's Manual were "-dogmeat" and
     "-noclock".  I'd be interested in any others (especially any
     relating to screen geometry).

  2) When you execute Executor-MSW from the command line, do you 
     specify the path to the "executable app" as a "NeXT-based"
     path or a "Mac-based" path?  In other words, is it
   /LocalApps/Executor-MSW.app/Executor-MSW /LocalApps/Executor-MSW.app/ExecutorVolume/Word/"Microsoft Word"
     or is it
   /LocalApps/Executor-MSW.app/Executor-MSW "ExecutorVolume:Word:Microsoft Word"  ?

[sorry about the long lines]
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