Yes; that's how I was originally doing it, I only changed to see if that would fix the problem. What really confuses me is that if you run the script from the Terminal, it runs correctly EVERY time, but run from cron, it irregularly doesn't completely run. Russell On Nov 11, 2005, at 10:41 AM, TjL wrote: > > have you tried > > open -a Filemaker /path/to/file.ext > > note that the word 'Filemaker' must be exactly as it appears in > /Applications so for example to open Word is > > open -a "Microsoft Word" /path/to/file.ext > > spelling AND capitalization count IIRC. > > TjL > > _______________________________________________ > X-Unix mailing list > X-Unix at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-unix > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984