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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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