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nichm | April 18, 2009 08:40 PM | in Apple

"execute file as application" on a mac

How can I do this on Leopard? i need to do this for http://www.autofighter.org/AutoFighterNXManual.pdf

step 10 of mac tutorial.

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dfmckay | April 18, 2009 09:42 PM

I don't have experince with this exact program but if you right click and select 'get info' there is a 'open with' section, you can select other then navigate to 'terminal' under '/Applications/Utilities'. You may have to change the enable box from 'Recommended Applications' to 'All Applications'. This will launch the script via terminal whenever you click on it instead of your default action that's normally associated with the .sh extension.

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nichm | April 18, 2009 10:20 PM

Doesn't answer my question at all.

Thanks for helping, but if you don't know, say so or don't answer.

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dfmckay | April 19, 2009 12:53 AM

chmod is the actually command that makes a file executable, I assumed you were looking for a way to simply double click on it to execute it. you could always go into terminal, navigate to the directory then do a './command' to execute it.

here is the man page on chmod

http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/chmod/

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