[surfacto]

I am using a piece of software called labview, which will allow me to send Applescript to run in specific programs. All I want to do is have it open a terminal window and execute the following commands:

% cd workingdirectory

% flic.command

where flic.command is an executable file. Unfortunately, I have no experience with applescript, but I have seen that many of you out there are quite proficient at it. Where to begin?

Another question: labview requires that I specify a Target ID for the requested application. Any ideas what this is?

[suthercd]

surfacto-

A good place to start is with the man osascript command. Osascript calls and excutes other scripting environments.

Craig

[Gary Kerbaugh]

   I believe that the commands you're looking for are AppleScript's "do shell script" and "do script" commands. The first executes the string argument (shell command(s)) in a Bourne shell, "sh" but doesn't need or use a terminal window. The second is a command in the Terminal's dictionary and so must be directed at a Terminal window. In this case, it's necessary to have a reference to such a window; not a big deal but slightly more involved.
   A good reference for "do shell script" is do shell script in AppleScript and a couple of examples for scripting a Terminal window can be found at Scriptable Applications: Terminal. If that isn't enough, searching the web will turn up a few others.