Re: Useful hint for terminal users "open -f"

2010-09-28 Thread Sarah Alawami
Ok I'll redo the command later when I have more energy. lol! S On Sep 28, 2010, at 5:40 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Okay, interact with the text window then hit enter once, and then try hitting > up arrow once and listen to what happens.On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Sarah Alawami > wrote: > >> I did. no

Re: Useful hint for terminal users "open -f"

2010-09-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
Okay, interact with the text window then hit enter once, and then try hitting up arrow once and listen to what happens.On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Sarah Alawami wrote: I did. nothing. I heard the sound meaning there's nothing there, the hollow pop sound as I call it. lol! On Sep 27, 2010, at 4:56 PM

Re: Useful hint for terminal users "open -f"

2010-09-27 Thread Sarah Alawami
I did. nothing. I heard the sound meaning there's nothing there, the hollow pop sound as I call it. lol! On Sep 27, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Interact with the text window then try reading, that sometimes works in cases > like these.On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Sarah Alawami wrote: > >>

Re: Useful hint for terminal users "open -f"

2010-09-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
Interact with the text window then try reading, that sometimes works in cases like these.On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Sarah Alawami wrote: Yeah I tried that and it opeend a blank document with a n odd title in text edit. lol! On Sep 27, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: Sarah, Did you get it t

Re: Useful hint for terminal users "open -f"

2010-09-27 Thread Sarah Alawami
Yeah I tried that and it opeend a blank document with a n odd title in text edit. lol! On Sep 27, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > Sarah, > > Did you get it to work? Note there are two special characters in the > command, these are important to get right... > > 1. There is a "pipe" or

Re: Useful hint for terminal users "open -f"

2010-09-27 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Sarah, Did you get it to work? Note there are two special characters in the command, these are important to get right... 1. There is a "pipe" or "OR bar" as some might call it, (In US keyboards it is a shifted back slash). This was between say and open. This command is used in terminal to say se

Re: Useful hint for terminal users "open -f"

2010-09-24 Thread Sarah Alawami
I think I got it but not sure. it opened something but my text edit window was blank. I'll look again when I get home. S On Sep 24, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > It is more likely that I didn't write the command correcI will test my > command with a cut and paste from home to ensure

Re: Useful hint for terminal users "open -f"

2010-09-24 Thread Jonathan Cohn
It is more likely that I didn't write the command correcI will test my command with a cut and paste from home to ensure Iformatted it correctly. It should'nt take more then 3 seconds. Jon instantaenious. On 23/09/2010, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Hmm how long does this process of manual creation las

Re: Useful hint for terminal users "open -f"

2010-09-23 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hmm how long does this process of manual creation last? I waited about 1 to 2 minutes and text edit did not open with the manual for the say command. Take care. Maybe I'm not patient enough. S On Sep 23, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > I was playing around with making fun of "droid

Useful hint for terminal users "open -f"

2010-09-23 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I was playing around with making fun of "droid" adds. So I created a sound file... say -o droiddead.aiff -v cello "droid. is. dead. Long live I Phone" I thought hmm, I should be able to open this from the termial and not have to switch to the finder. In the process, I discoverd that there