launch(1) launch(1)NAME launch - runs a Macintosh binary application in A/UX SYNOPSIS launch [-adr] application [document]... launch -p [adr] application document... ARGUMENTS -a Runs the Macintosh application asynchronously. application Specifies the name of the application file to be run. -d Performs a launch operation that is compatible with applications requiring 24-bit addressing mode. (Such applications are not 32-bit clean.) document Specifies an individual document to be opened. -p Prints the specified document. To use the -p option, you must supply a document name in the command line. Using the -p option is equivalent to selecting a document through the Macintosh Finder and then choosing Print from the File menu. -r Enables certain preprocessing and postprocessing of the standard input and standard output so that carriage return characters are mapped to newlines upon reading input and mapped backed to carriage returns upon writing output. DESCRIPTION launch runs the Macintosh binary application specified. The application and document arguments act much as do icons selected through the Macintosh Finder. If your application is in a pair of AppleDouble files, the two files must be in the same directory. You do not specify both filenames; launch automatically looks for the associated header file when you launch an AppleDouble data file. EXAMPLES This command runs the Macintosh binary application MacPaint: launch macpaint This command runs MacPaint and opens the document demo: launch macpaint demo January 1992 1
launch(1) launch(1)A simpler way to run a Macintosh application from the command line is to enter its name in place of launch. For this method to work, the Macintosh application must be located within an A/UX file system in a directory specified as one of the search paths in the PATH variable. For example, consider an application named xyz. If it is in AppleDouble format, the header file for xyz has the A/UX filename %xyz. To launch xyz, enter this command: xyz To launch xyz and open the document file abc, enter this command: xyz abc You can nevertheless use the launch command options when invoking a Macintosh application this way-without a direct reference to launch. FILES /mac/bin/launch Executable file 2 January 1992