Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion
Date	2012-08-18 06:24 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnk2ud83.iuc.g.kreme@mbp55.local> (permalink)
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In message <timstreater-F54046.23480417082012@news.individual.net> 
  Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
> In article <slrnk2thqu.eqs.g.kreme@mbp55.local>,
>  Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>> In message <timstreater-330B0F.23260317082012@news.individual.net> 
>>   Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
>> > In article <1koznr4.sxbt921me61qgN%dcohenspam@talktalk.net>,
>> >  dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) wrote:
>> 
>> >> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > How does the -a option act differently from what the man page says?  I
>> >> > just tried:
>> >> > 
>> >> > open -a TextEdit filename.docx
>> >> > 
>> >> > and the Word document was opened in TextEdit as desired. It's supposed
>> >> > to be like using the 'Open With' contextual menu in the Finder.  The man
>> >> > page says "Specifies the application to use for opening the file", which
>> >> > seems to be a reasonable description of what that does.
>> >> 
>> >> Yes, that's fine, the manual explains what
>> >> 
>> >> open -a application file
>> >> 
>> >> does, but one has to have more experience than I have to realise that
>> >> this also covers
>> >> 
>> >> open -a application
>> >> 
>> >> That was explained to me by David Empson in a thread related to this on
>> >> the Apple Support Communities Mountain Lion section
>> 
>> > You can also do such as:
>> 
>> >   open -a Safari 'http://www.example.com/'
>> 
>> > which I have found *very* handy.
>> 
>> I usually just say 
>> 
>> open http://www.example.com

> Fine but I needed Safari to do it.

So did I.

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caffeinate and Mountain Lion dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2012-08-15 20:49 +0100
  Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-15 20:53 +0000
    Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2012-08-15 22:57 +0100
      Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-08-15 19:38 -0400
      Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Bob Harris <nospam.News.Bob@remove.Smith-Harris.us> - 2012-08-15 20:01 -0400
      Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2012-08-16 13:35 +1200
        Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2012-08-15 22:05 -0400
        Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-08-15 23:37 -0400
          Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2012-08-16 16:02 +1200
            Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2012-08-16 10:26 +0100
              Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-08-16 15:45 -0400
                Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-08-16 19:09 -0400
                Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-08-16 20:32 -0400
                Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2012-08-17 07:29 +0100
                Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-08-17 13:23 -0400
                Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2012-08-17 22:52 +0100
                Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-08-17 23:26 +0100
                Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-17 22:36 +0000
                Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-08-17 23:48 +0100
                Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-18 06:24 +0000
                Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-08-17 20:42 -0400
                Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2012-08-17 11:12 +0200
      Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-16 03:41 +0000

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