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From: lantz@Apple.COM (Bob Lantz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: How do Mac programs get launched under A/UX? (How do they get file names?)
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Date: 10 Oct 90 20:55:25 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:

>How do Mac programs get launched under A/UX?  And how do they get their file
>names?  That is, if I use the command shell and type "Word myDoc", Word will
>open myDoc.
...

This is described briefly in the manual page for launch(1) (/mac/bin/launch,
not the other launch.)  From the Mac application's point of view, the 
parameter mechanism is the same old AppParmHandle described in Inside Mac
volume II.

>Robert

Bob Lantz
A/UX Team