Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!emory!joe
From: joe@mathcs.emory.edu (Joe Christy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: command line launching
Keywords: Workspace Terminal
Message-ID: <4190@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Date: 4 Jul 89 18:15:16 GMT
Organization: Math & Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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	My machine has recently lost the ability to launch applications
properly from the command line. For example, I used to type
	>/NextApps/Terminal &
and a new Terminal window would spring in to being. Now it briefly
appears, then disappears and the shell reports that its job is done.
All the applications I've tried [mis-]behave in approximately the same
way. Shell is particularly interesting; it opens a window, shuts it and
leaves a mini-window at the bottom of the workspace. When I open the
mini-window, I get a Shell window with its content area gray!
	Does anyone have any ideas about the root of this problem? It
persists through reboots, making me wonder if the Workspace/Window-
Server has some undocumented default that I've somehow overwritten.
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