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- From: dave@nakiska.ucs.ualberta.ca (David Ross)
- Subject: Re: Command-line apps now harder (was Re: Workspace HideOnAutoLaunch)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.193715.10801@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
- References: <1992Sep2.095521.5784@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:37:15 GMT
- Lines: 20
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- In article <1992Sep2.095521.5784@u.washington.edu>
- wjs@blorf.cpac.washington.edu (William Shipley) writes:
- > Michael Mellinger writes:
- >
- > 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.
- >
-
- Have you used the "open" command? Works great. Understands Workspace
- concepts like ".app". "eg. open -NXHost nakiska WordPerfect.app"
- works fine. Also works on documents and non-.app apps.
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