Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> 
> java -jar -d32 -XstartOnFirstThread
> Vesta.app/Contents/Resources/Java/vesta.jar
> 
> by hand works fine, as Arno noted some time ago.
>  But I can hardly recommend that :-{

Well, it's good enough for me and easier than trying to figure out how to
run the command line with scripts that are presumably buried somewhere deep
in the innards of Vesta.  A small modification to your command though, which
should work on systems where Vesta.app is installed in the default location:

java -jar -d32 -XstartOnFirstThread \
/Applications/Vesta.app/Contents/Resources/Java/vesta.jar

and needless to say that this has to be all on one line.

All the best,

Christian

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  Christian Wittern
  Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
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