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- From: aem@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (allen.e.milewski)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: will hypercard open a shell?
- Keywords: hypercard
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.215735.1039@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 21:57:35 GMT
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: AT&T
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- The Hypercard "open" command can be used to start up a MacIntosh
- application from within a Hypercard Stack.
- I would like to start up an A/UX shell script
- from within Hypercard. Is there some way to do this?
- I have tried and have observed the following:
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- 1) Hypercard "open" won't start a shell script with the path fully specified;
- it says the script is not an application.
- 2) when the shell scripts path is not specified, the Hypercard "path-tracking-
- capability" will not list (does not recognize) shell scripts.
- 3) The above items are also true when trying to "open"
- (e.g.) the TextEditor or any of the "rez'd" programs in /mac/src.
- 4) Hypercard will "open" any MacIntosh Application, seemingly no matter
- where it is .
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- Advice??
-
- I currently run A/UX 2.0 but will soon upgrade to 3.0. Also, while I am
- currently playing with Hypercard, I eventually want to
- do "opens" from MacroMind Director.
- Thanks.
-
- Al Milewski
- aem\@boron.att.com
-