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How to launch second process of a program from Spotlight on Snow leopard

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I usually launch programs from Spotlight, and there is one program that I want to launch second process. The program in particular is Mathematica. The second process of Mathematica allows me to keep working on while the first process is tied up to evaluation of some expressions, which take a long t…

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/Applications/Mathematica.app/Contents/MacOS/Mathematica

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Fix for: How to launch second process of a program from Spotlight on Snow leopard

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There is nothing you can do to achieve this. Applications are not usually meant to be launched multiple times. Some, like Safari 5, TextMate, or iTunes behave oddly or prevent this completely. But you can wrap that command-line call of yours, or pre…

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