Re: Running Mozilla from console in Mac OSX 10.2

In article <[email protected]>,
 Felix Seeger <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I want to start Mozilla (1.2.1) from the console on Mac OSX 10.2.
> I need this for a script which in the end starts a program (create profile,
> start tomcat, tomcat starts mozilla with the profile)
> 
> But I always get "cannot execute binary file"
> 
> - I tried to extract the content of the disk image
> - I tried to extract the disc image plus the .app directory
> 
> No luck. I also tried the "open" program, but I need to give some parameters
> to mozilla (create a profile) and for me it looks like open cannot do this.
> 
> "file Mozilla" gives "PEF binary"
> 
> Is there a mozilla tar.gz build I can use or another program I can use to
> start mozilla with arguments ?

You can run it from the terminal like this (assuming you're in the 
dir where the app bundle is):

  ./Mozilla.app/Contents/MacOS/mozilla-bin -foobar

Simon

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