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- NewName One of the main design features of the NeXTStep Workspace
- manager and NeXT defaults database is that you can't specify com-
- mand line arguments to applications invoked via the dock or the
- directory browser. This is especially important if you wish to
- autostart more than one terminal emulator without them appearing
- in the same place, same font, The application adds command line
- arguments to other applications by adding another layer to their
- invocation. Any command line arguments it receives are passed
- unaltered to the real application. To find out which application
- to run and the set of arguments to use, it checks the name that
- it was invoked with and uses that as the application name for
- finding variables in the defaults database. The variables are
- used to construct the following command line to invoke the real
- application:
-