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- From: wjs@blorf.cpac.washington.edu (William Shipley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Command-line apps now harder (was Re: Workspace HideOnAutoLaunch)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.095521.5784@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 09:55:21 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Sep2.095521.5784
- References: <1992Sep1.222014.23776@Trirex.COM>
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- Organization: University of Washington
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- Michael Mellinger writes:
- > It's not the same thing. It's an incredible pain in the butt to type it
- > everytime. dwrite'ing it is a permanent alternative, which I don't like
- > either. One should be able to set the DISPLAY for a login session.
-
- Life gets worse (in this area) under 3.0, since you can't run .app wrappers
- easily from the command line (you have to cd to the directory and run the
- binary to make sure you pick up the resources), and ALL freshly compiled
- programs will be .app wrappers.
-
- Good-bye, single file executables. I wonder if there's a special heaven for
- cool NeXTstep features that fell by the wayside? If so, this one is up there
- with the Music Kit and Icon.app.
-
- -W
-