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I use

RunProgram("xdg-open","http://www.purebasic.com","")

-Pete

Thanks Wilbert. Your example helped a lot! I worked it into my routine and testing is exactly what I was hoping to be able to do.

-Pete

Thanks for your response Wilbert. The UBC is the Unified Buffer Cache. All file transfers (local, USB, etc.) goes through this on the Mac. For instance, if you copy a file to a USB drive, it may take many seconds to minutes. If you read it back again, it takes less than a second because it's cached ...

I am trying to figure out the best way to do some file transfers while bypassing the UBC. I cannot find a way to do this with Purebasic built in commands or Cocoa, but am learning that it can be done using fcntl.h included with XCode. Is fcntl.h something that can be used in Purebasic (ie, ImportC ...

Your routine worked great! Thanks Wilbert. I'm coming from Windows API, and trying to catch onto Cocoa Methods. I see I still have a long ways to go - because I was way off

-Pete

Wilbert,

Thank you for this example! I am gone for the weekend, but can't wait to try it on Monday.

-Pete

I'm trying to display some rtf data that is in a string into a editor gadget. I've tried "Loading a rtf file" by Wilbert - (just to test getting some rtf data to display correctly). That works great displaying rtf from a file. I played around with that routine trying to use "initWithRTF:" instead. I ...