Locating an Application to Launch

[Michael D.]

David,
On Windows you could use psinfo-s  from Sysinternals to find all
applications installed on a PC. Then output into a temp file, search though
it for what you need, if its found then do something with it.
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsInfo.html

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Burgun" <dburgun at dsl.pipex.com>
To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 7:24 AM
Subject: Locating an Application to Launch


> Hi,
>
> How can I find out if an Application is available on the system,
> especially if there is more than one version of the application
> installed? I need something that will search all volumes on a system
> and list all the occurances of the application?
>
> For instance if I am looking for (say) Photoshop and there are three
> versions on two volumes, I would like to present this to the user and
> allow them to select the one they wish to launch. If there is only
> one version, then just launch it.
>
> This needs to run under MacOS X and Windows.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help
> All the Best
> Dave
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