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- From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
- Subject: Re: Command-line apps now harder (was Re: Workspace HideOnAutoLaunch)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.012048.9669@cubetech.com>
- Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
- References: <1992Sep1.222014.23776@Trirex.COM> <1992Sep2.095521.5784@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 01:20:48 GMT
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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.
-
-
- ??? open(1)
-
- Just type open and drag the App icon into the terminal window and hit
- return.
-
-
- andrew
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