Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion
Date	2012-08-16 03:41 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
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In message <1kow4w8.1pl3qu3pq89fkN%dcohenspam@talktalk.net> 
  Daniel Cohen <dcohenspam@talktalk.net> wrote:
> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>> In message <1kovy4h.u0ig7fl2q0rqN%dcohenspam@talktalk.net> 
>>   Daniel Cohen <dcohenspam@talktalk.net> wrote:
>> > I may well be doing something wrong, but the manual does not indicate
>> > any syntax that I have got wrong.
>> 
>> > Does anyone know what is happening and what I should be doing?
>> 
>> Since no one know what you are doing, it is impossible to answer that.

> Sorry if I wasn't clear enough.

> The manual for caffeinate seems to say that the command

> caffeinate -di /path/to/Application.app

> should work (to stop sleep while the application is running).

Highly unlikely.

Try

/path/to/Application.app/Contents/MacOS/application


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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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