OS X: Can launch app but not file

Alex Rice alex at mindlube.com
Sat Aug 30 23:55:00 EDT 2003


On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 03:52  AM, Kaveh Bazargan wrote:

> This works for me:
>
>  launch "/Applications/BBEdit 7.0/BBEdit.app"
>
> but this doesn't:
>
>  launch "/Applications/BBEdit 7.0/myfile.txt" with 
> "/Applications/BBEdit
> 7.0/BBEdit.app"
>
> If BBEdit is not running, I get "no such program"
> If it is running, I get "process already open"
>
> Any guidance please.

Kaveh, I think it's a Rev bug. Can you, and others, please add your 
findings to bugzilla bug #449? I have just changed the bug title to be 
more general because it seems the "launch DOC with APP" command is 
broken in more than one way.

Alex Rice <alex at mindlube.com> | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com

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