Thanks for your reply. 15 years ago I was a Oracle DBA for AT&T, and before that a programmer. This was on UNIX boxes. After that I was a Sr Engineer on UNIX platforms, supporting client-server databases for Sybase also on UNIX platforms. After I was laid off over 10 years ago, I haven't touched UNIX since.
Anyway, I can bone up on it and look into a shell script. The problem for me is, I'm running out of time, don't have a platform to test this on, and I'm really busy with other business so can't spend the time this will take - including driving 30 miles over to the Micro Center and using one of their Macs. I was hoping one of you experts could tell me exactly the script that should work, and the steps for my daughter to set it up on her Macbook - and what I can do to help her. This has to go in the mail tomorrow or it will be late - and my day today is already more than booked. Might be I could go to the micro center and format the drive and load the data on it so the hardware can be mailed, and work on the script during the week & email it. But then I couldn't test it.
As I said - I know pretty much diddly on using / supporting Macs.
Thanks for your help so far. If you have time to bang out a script that should work, and tell me how to set it up so it's executed on a Mac, with launching the front end appl [TCNG viewer executable filename] - I will be really grateful FWIW. Thanks much.