Setting the 'Open With'

Ray Horsley Ray at LinkIt.Com
Thu Sep 24 16:56:17 EDT 2009


Very interesting Stephen!  I've never used these commands before.   
They might just do the trick for me.

Thanks,

Ray Horsley
LinkIt! Software

On Sep 24, 2009, at 10:41 AM, stephen barncard wrote:

> you could use Tar from the shell or Rev's built in zip commands.
> -------------------------
> Stephen Barncard
> San Francisco
> http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev
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>
>
> 2009/9/24 Ray Horsley <Ray at linkit.com>:
>> Thanks Marty.  It's just slightly more complicated than that,  
>> though.  In my
>> case I've got a zip file which a script in my standalone has  
>> downloaded.
>>  I'd like to decompress it automatically from the same script but I  
>> don't
>> know where "Archive Utility" is or what it's named on the end users  
>> machine.
>>  On my machine it's System/Library/Core Services/Archive  
>> Utility.app but on
>> a friend's machine I noticed it's named "BOMArchive Utility"  
>> instead of
>> "Archive Utility".  Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ray Horsley
>> LinkIt! Software
>>
>> On Sep 24, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Marty Knapp wrote:
>>
>>> You can open a specific document with a specific application like  
>>> this:
>>>
>>> launch "/MyDocumentsFolder/TheDocument.doc" with "/Applications/ 
>>> MyApp.app"
>>>
>>> using the path of each. and assuming the the application is  
>>> capable of
>>> opening it.
>>>
>>> Marty Knapp
>>>>
>>>> On kind of a related note, anybody know how to set a file to open  
>>>> with a
>>>> certain application?  This is manually done with the Get Info  
>>>> window on the
>>>> Mac but I need to do this from within a script.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Ray Horsley
>>>> LinkIt! Software
>>>>
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