On Sun, 28 May 2006, David Cantrell wrote:
> if instead you're doing something like ...
>
> system('open', '/Applications/Acrobat.app');
>
> then you'll need to:
>
> wait around until Acrobat appears in the process table;
> wait around until that PID disappears;
Really??
In my experience, the `open` command immediately returns control to the
controlling process (the shell, or whatever else invoked it (pine etc))
without waiting for the `open`ed application to finish, or for that
matter even to finish launching.
If you're going to use acroread, then [a] you have to install it, and
[b] you have to view the document in X11. Yuck. Surely that isn't really
the best way to approach this, is it? I'd have thought that the `open`
command was the perfect answer to this question...
system('open', '/Applications/Preview.app');
etc.
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Chris Devers
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