I'm running extendscript in command line and get an alert.

Can you launch FrameMaker from a command line? If so, a better approach may be to launch FrameMaker from a command line and have a Notification script that will run automatically when FrameMaker starts and do what you want. I don't think there is a way to pass arguments to ExtendScript from a command line.

Another way to do it is to store your arguments in a small XML file and then when the script is invoked, it can pick up the arguments from the XML file.

Did you add the line

#target framemaker

at the start of your script ?

Seems to be fine with the ecaped backslashes. First thing to do is insert a bunch of Err( ) commands to your code, so that you can read what the various parameters are in the console. After a critical command, such as Open( ) on the book, print the FA_errno to the console with some text indicating where the code is. If FA_Errno is 0, everthing is OK If not, you need to chedk the scripting guide for the meaning of the error code. Do this immediately after the critical function call, as FA_errno gets overwritten by subsequent calls.

OpenFile is not a function I recognize. To open a FM book or file, you need the much more elaborate Open(  ) function, for which you need to define a set of propVals and provide an array of propVals for the method to report back properties when the Open failed. Check the Scripting Guide for the global Open(  ) function.

If your script uses relative paths it will be relative to the location of the script. That might cause some file related commands to fail - try adding an Err(   ) to make the full name of the book or file to be opened in the console.

As for command line arguments - I have never tried that. You may find information by searching for the $ object. That is a generic Javascript construct pointing to the current script. This is also where you find the path name of the currently executed script, so there might be properties or methods for arguments as well.

Then you need to create a command for it and add it to one of the menus - or create your own menu. Then the command will be run from within FrameMaker instead of outside - which may be seen as a malicious attack. If the alert would not show, a mail attachment could automatically fire a script and do something disruptive.