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- From: alex@laos (Alex D. Nghiem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Re: Command-line apps now harder (was Re: Workspace HideOnAutoLaunch)
- Keywords: open, launch
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.141110.19865@pencom.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 14:11:10 GMT
- References: <1992Sep2.095521.5784@u.washington.edu>
- Sender: usenet@pencom.com (Usenet Psuedo User)
- Reply-To: alex@pencom.com
- Organization: Pencom Software
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1992Sep2.095521.5784@u.washington.edu>
- wjs@blorf.cpac.washington.edu (William Shipley) writes:
- > 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
-
- William:
-
- You can always use open, such as open Example.app to launch the application.
-
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- Best regards,
-
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