MacOS X App Launcher Script

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This shell script below is used to launch the MacOS X Terminal.app which will then run the octave shell script, which will initialize the shell environment and run Octave. The name of the script below is just "script" and is used as the MacOS X App bundle launcher script.

#!/bin/sh
# Copyright (C) 2007, Thomas Treichl and Paul Kienzle
# Copyright (C) 2008-2011, Thomas Treichl
# Copyright (C) 2012, Ben Abbott
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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#
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# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# General Public License for more details.
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ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" 2>/dev/null && pwd)"

open -F -a Terminal "${ROOT}/bin/octave"