<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Warning: This is an advanced topic and may be of limited interest to many members of the list… But it applies to the recent thread on double-clicking an Alice project file and having it launch Alice, as opposed to having to open Alice project files from within Alice...</div><div><br></div><div><begin answer></div><div><br></div>It is possible to launch Alice from the Terminal command line in OS X using:<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>open -a <path to the directory containing the Alice app on your system>/Alice.app/Contents/MacOS/Alice</div><div><br></div><div>on my machine, where Alice 2.3 located in my system Applications directory, I can type:<br><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>open -a /Applications/Alice.app/Contents/MacOS/Alice</div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, the open command does not take arguments, such as file names, to link the project file to the application…</div><div><br></div><div>There may be an alternative command that I have not yet found…</div><div><br></div><div>We will look into the double-click on an .a2w or .a3p to launch Alice issue…</div><div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><div>Don Slater</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 20, 2013, at 9:30 PM, James Vanderhyde <<a href="mailto:jvanderhyde@benedictine.edu">jvanderhyde@benedictine.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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Is there a way to launch Alice 2 from the command line, and if so, is one of the command-line parameters the Alice 2 world file to load? If so, I could use this information to open .a2w files by double-clicking the file, which otherwise doesn't work on Mac
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