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Any idea how to make a .bat equivalent for OSX?


Hawkslayer

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I'm a new Mac user and love it.. but some games (like this one *growl*) default to dos style commmand line switches in order run them. (it's called GUI, look it up mister 1992 *wink*)

Could someone help me out in figuring out how to automate this?

"DropTeam.app/Contents/MacOS/DropTeam -enterlobby false –hostmode

server –lobbyname ThePainStation –numbots0 8 –numbots1 8 –

dynamicbots true –password LookingGlass –gametype Objective"

This is basically what I wanna automate (not this exactly) which I copied from the pdf manual.

Thanks for your help.. and be nice to me in game! =)

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You can write a bash script and save it with a ".command" extension so it will run when you double click it.

The script would look like this:

</font><blockquote>code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">#! /bin/bash

cd /Applications/DropTeam

rm -rf nohup.out

nohup DropTeam.app/Contents/MacOS/DropTeam -enterlobby false –hostmode

server –lobbyname ThePainStation –numbots0 8 –numbots1 8 –

dynamicbots true –password LookingGlass –gametype Objective &</pre>

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Thanks Clay!

Sadly it doesn't like this file (used TextEdit and saved it as .command) Console said it couldn't open this file, although it did open the console app, so it seems the association is right.

Is there a special formatting type for it or something? (unicode, etc)

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As an update to Clay's post, you gotta go into the terminal and use chmod to make the script executable (chmod +x filename).

You can't seem to do this via the finder.

I still haven't gotten things to actually RUN but at least the .command file runs now.. so maybe I'll get a server up before New Years =)

Edit: Finally figured it out smile.gif (had bad characters in the text file that were causing errors)

[ December 11, 2006, 12:12 PM: Message edited by: Hawkslayer ]

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