starting a process on OS X

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Wed Sep 3 12:36:00 EDT 2003


On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, at 11:05 AM, Kaveh Bazargan wrote:

> This helped me the other day. Maybe it'll help here too:
>
> At 10:57 am -0500 30/8/03, Ken Ray wrote:
>> You'll note that -43 is the "file not found" error.
>>
>> In OS X you need to specify the ".app" for applications, so you need 
>> to
>> do:
>>
>>  launch "Mail.app"

 From the docs:

>   Note:  On OS X systems, you can use the open process command to 
> start up an application, but not a Unix process. To work with a Unix 
> process, use the shell function instead.

I guess I need a shell solution.  I don't know why & does not seem to 
work.  Maybe it does and I'm doing something else wrong.

Dar Scott




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