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- From: frank@fnbc.com (Frank Mitchell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Re: Command-line apps now harder (was Re: Workspace HideOnAutoLaunch)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.141245.16696@fnbc.com>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 14:12:45 GMT
- References: <1992Sep2.095521.5784@u.washington.edu>
- Sender: news@fnbc.com
- Organization: First National Bank Of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
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- In article <1992Sep2.095521.5784@u.washington.edu>
- wjs@blorf.cpac.washington.edu (William Shipley) 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.
-
- What about typing "open Whatever.app"? It's five extra characters, but
- you don't have to cd anywhere.
-
- But it would be nice if NeXT hacked csh (and execve(), and ...) to let it
- understand .app wrappers.
-
- --
- Frank Mitchell, Business Systems Analyst, First National Bank of Chicago
- email:frank@fnbc.com (NeXTmail)
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