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Date: Sun 04-Jul-1989 18:15:16 From: Unknown Subject: command line launching My machine has recently lost the ability to launch applications properly from the command line. For example, I used to type >/NextApps/Terminal & and a new Terminal window would spring in to being. Now it briefly appears, then disappears and the shell reports that its job is done. All the applications I've tried [mis-]behave in approximately the same way. Shell is particularly interesting; it opens a window, shuts it and leaves a mini-window at the bottom of the workspace. When I open the mini-window, I get a Shell window with its content area gray! Does anyone have any ideas about the root of this problem? It persists through reboots, making me wonder if the Workspace/Window- Server has some undocumented default that I've somehow overwritten.
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