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10.3: Use the Finder to launch Unix apps
Authored by: rv8 on Feb 06, '04 01:07:32PM

There must be another variable at play, because this does not work correctly in all cases for me. For, example, I use Fink, and if I go into /sw/bin, clicking on gnumeric works properly, but clicking on bluefish tries to open it using the Terminal instead of X11, and clicking on abiword gets me the dialog box saying that there is on default application to open it.

What am I missing?

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Kevin Horton



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10.3: Use the Finder to launch Unix apps
Authored by: Tom Robinson on Feb 09, '04 01:53:53AM

My guess is the smarts are something along the lines of 'does it have an empty type and creator and the Unix execute bit is set', so you could check those things...



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