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Hi,

I'm writing a XUL application that launches another application on
windows using:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c start saluton.pho

I want this to work on Mac OS (10) as well, but don't have such a
machine myself (!). I think "open" is the equivalent of "start", so to
get this to work I need either:

/fullpath/open saluton.pho

or something like

/fullpath/someshell -c saluton.pho

So my questions are:
1) is "open" part of the shell or an executable itself?
2) where does "open" live (it's full path), or where is the shell (and
is /fullpath/someshell -c myfile correct)

thanks,
Aaron
(Belfast)

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<deja@lingvo.org> wrote:

1) is "open" part of the shell or an executable itself?

Don't know if this helps, but in bash (default shell on Mac OS X) I can
write, e.g.,
open /Applications/iPhoto.app
and iPhoto will open normally.

Here is a quote from its man page:


OPEN(1) BSD General Commands Manual OPEN(1)

NAME
open -- open files and directories

SYNOPSIS
open [-a application] file ...

open [-b bundle_identifier] file ...

open [-e] file ...

open [-t] file ...

open [-f]

DESCRIPTION
The open command opens a file (or a directory or URL), just as if you
had double-clicked the file's icon. If no application name is specified,
the default application as determined via LaunchServices is used to open
the specified files.


Good luck.
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In article <1144495670.668859.23970@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, deja@lingvo.org wrote:

I'm writing a XUL application that launches another application on
windows using:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c start saluton.pho

I want this to work on Mac OS (10) as well, but don't have such a
machine myself (!). I think "open" is the equivalent of "start", so to
get this to work I need either:

/fullpath/open saluton.pho

or something like

/fullpath/someshell -c saluton.pho

So my questions are:
1) is "open" part of the shell or an executable itself?

Mac OS X 'man' pages are available online at
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/index.html

2) where does "open" live (it's full path), or where is the shell (and
is /fullpath/someshell -c myfile correct)

$ whereis open
/usr/bin/open

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Hans Aberg
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* deja@lingvo.org (2006-04-08):

Hi,

I'm writing a XUL application that launches another application on
windows using:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c start saluton.pho

I want this to work on Mac OS (10) as well, but don't have such a
machine myself (!). I think "open" is the equivalent of "start", so to
get this to work I need either:

/fullpath/open saluton.pho

or something like

/fullpath/someshell -c saluton.pho

So my questions are:
1) is "open" part of the shell or an executable itself?

An executable

2) where does "open" live (it's full path), or where is the shell (and
is /fullpath/someshell -c myfile correct)

$ which open
/usr/bin/open
$ which sh
/bin/sh

-Andre
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On 2006-04-08, deja@lingvo.org <deja@lingvo.org> wrote:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c start saluton.pho

The corresponding operation in osx is

open saluton.pho

as long as the .pho extension is already recognized.

1) is "open" part of the shell or an executable itself?

Executable.

2) where does "open" live (it's full path),

/usr/bin/open

where is the shell

There are lots of shells supported in osx: bash/sh, tcsh/csh, ksh, zsh.
They're all in /bin. But you don't need a shell here anyway.
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