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Re: Calling applications
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Re: Calling applications


  • Subject: Re: Calling applications
  • From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 08:33:16 +1100

On 1/2/03 12:11 AM +1000, Paul Medland, email@hidden, wrote:

> I would like to know if there is a way to call applications generically,
> meaning I don't wish to hard code the name of an application in my scripts.
> I have to compile my scripts again when somebody for example changes from
> QuarkXpress to QuarkXpress 4.1.

I suspect you're trying to solve a problem that doesn't really exist. If you
write a script for QuarkXpress 4.1 and I rename the app to
QuarkGoingNowhere on my Mac, your script will still work fine here.

--
Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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