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Re: Automating Disk Utility
From:
John Delacour <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:06:12 +0000
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At 9:01 pm +1100 16/1/06, Shane Stanley wrote:

>Put this in your Script menu:
>
>set theResult to (display dialog "Command to man:" default answer "")
>do shell script ("man -t " & (text returned of theResult) Â
>     & " | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app")

Terrific!

JD

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