[comp.sys.next] How do you open a Librarian index from a shell?

erik@infmx.UUCP (Erik Hennum) (08/31/90)

I'm writing a small FrameMaker hypertext application.  I would like to
have my hypertext node activate the Digital Librarian with a specific 
index selected.  

A FrameMaker hypertext node can pass a command to sh (it can also
message a FrameMaker client, but that sounds beyond my reach).  

I can always use /usr/bin/open to activate the Digital Librarian.  But
I'd also like to select an index that might not be in the user's
personal targets.

/usr/bin/open appears not to recognize index files:  .index opens as a
browser folder and index.D opens in Edit.

I queried furiously within the NeXT documentation, but could only 
discover that NeXT recommends that applications have a Request menu 
to pass selected text to the Librarian and activate the Librarian.

My grateful thanks for any ideas, 


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