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Article #750Re: Command-line apps now harder (was Re: Workspace HideOnAutoLaunch)
From: Frank Mitchell
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 14:12
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 14:12
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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) "Remember, citizen: democracy is not for the people." -- Judge Dredd
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!stanford.edu!rutgers!psinntp!psinntp!juliet!news 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 Lines: 18