Re: Command-line apps now harder (was Re: Workspace HideOnAutoLaunch)

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From: Andrew Loewenstern
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 01:20

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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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Subject: Re: Command-line apps now harder (was Re: Workspace HideOnAutoLaunch)
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