Opening program through terminal on install disc

okay, so here is my situation: I am booting from the OS X install disc (can't get onto my internal HDD), and then going to Disk Utility (I have external HDD attached), mounting a disk image on the external HDD (the application is also directly on the /Volumes/External HD), and trying to run this program from Terminal on the install disc by changing to the directory, and then doing "open programname", only to find that "open" isn't a command that exists. However, I am pretty sure that is the command. Anyone know how to do this? (the program is a .app btw).

I've used the open command in Terminal to launch a program which will open the particular file, you add the application option to the open command:
Tigin:~ francine$ open -a TextWrangler /Users/francine/Desktop/mwindex.html
You can also open a program in Terminal with the complete path to the program's executable, ie:
Tigin:~ francine$ /Volumes/Not200/Applications/Utilities/BatChmod.app/Contents/MacOS/BatChmod
It will only run as long as the Terminal window is open.
Francine
Francine
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