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Re: Vindaloo - open a PDF from the command line


From: Niels Grewe
Subject: Re: Vindaloo - open a PDF from the command line
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:27:12 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:35:53AM +0100, David Chisnall wrote:
> Is there a reason that it's called gopen instead of open?  I'd been
> using GNUstep and complaining about the lack of an open command for
> over a year before I found it...

I think it's the usual reason: There is a slighly less useful tool with
the same name ('open') on many Linux systems. It's proper name is
actually 'openvt', but distributions tend to symlink it to 'open' fof
backwards-compatibility.

Niels 




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