On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 02:28:28PM -0600, Chris Devers wrote:
> Ahh, clever. Does this just seach the /Applications tree, or will it find
> things I've put as, say, /Volumes/Applications/Internet/Mozilla? If that
> fails, can it be fixed by linking the remote partition into /Applications?
It consults LaunchServices, which means any application that
LaunchServices has seen (usually /Applications, plus any app that has
ever been opened, viewed, or copied in the Finder by the current
user).
Using application names is pretty breakable though (Apple's own OS X
installer limitations notwithstanding). open should be using a more
permanent identifier such as the bundle identifier.
<plug>
I've written an 'open' replacement called 'launch' which would be a
good candidate for inclusion into Fink. If someone wants to package
it, that would be great. For example, it'd find Mozilla by its bundle
identifier this way:
% launch -ni org.mozilla.Mozilla
/Volumes/GrayExtra/Extra/Mozilla/Mozilla CFM.app
launch is essentially a OS X-savvy version of 'file', 'which', and
'open'. It will open applications, open/print documents, launch URLs,
show file info, etc.
launch doesn't have any dependencies (works with 10.1 + dev tools) and
is distributed as a gzipped tar-file so there shouldn't be any
packaging issues.
<http://web.sabi.net/nriley/software/#launch>
</plug>
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=Nicholas Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>
Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and
Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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