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RealFlow Application
When RF_20152016_PATH is active all terminal applications will look for RealFlow under the given path. This way it is very easy to open RealFlow from a shell program without specifying the path to our simulation tool. Instead of this command line string:
prompt>"/Applications/RealFlow 20152016/RealFlow.app/Contents/MacOS/RealFlow”
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The variable expects the correct path to the RealFlow application, for example on OS X:
RF_20152016_PATH="/Applications/RealFlow 20152016/RealFlow.app/Contents/MacOS/RealFlow"
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