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Re: GNUstep equivalent to the "open" tool.
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Pascal J. Bourguignon |
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Re: GNUstep equivalent to the "open" tool. |
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Mon, 26 Mar 2001 00:34:34 +0200 (CEST) |
> From: strobe anarkhos <anarkhos@mac.com>
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> By the way, in OS X the open command will do different things
> depending on runtime conditions. If a specific app or document is
> already open it will be brought to the foreground. If I want to run
> two copies of an application I have to do make a copy of the app and
> 'open' both. 'open' somehow knows when a file is being used by a
> specific user. Of course you can open a document in two applications
> at the same time by specifying the apps explicitly.
Really? With MacOSX, you _have_ to duplicate the application as on
MacOS to launch it twice?
I would be surprised of such a regression, given that on NeXTSTEP /
OPENSTEP, all you had to do to launch a new process for an application
was to alt-doubleclick it.
'open' does not know anything but to ask the right application (thru
DO to NSWorkspace) to open the document. Most often, if the
application has already this document open, it merely
makeKeyAndOrderFront: its window.
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