Mac Thunderbird cryptic instructions

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In mozilla.org, there is a page of instructions for setting up command line options for Thunderbird. There is a list of arguments as well. This page is at:
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/command-line-args.html

The instructions for Macintosh are these:
On Mac OS, create a text file with the following syntax:

type:TEXT
creator:MOZZ
containing:ARGS: -P myprofile

That page is not clear on what you do if using Mac OS. Once you have made the text file, what do you do with it? Does it have to have a particular name? Does the creator in the text file have to be "MOZZ"? Why not "MOZILLA"? Is the profile name "default", or the cryptic series of characters representing the folder in the profile directory?
 
Those instructions are really, really hard to work out. As best I can see, you need to call Thunderbird with -P myprofile on the command line. You could do this from the Terminal, though I think that the text file Daniel has described actually is meant to go into the program package itself somehow.

Then, on second look, it strikes me that these are Mozilla's command line options, and Thunderbird doesn't appear anywhere on the page. The actual options sound like they are for a browser, too.
 
Does the name of the file matter?
It seems like a very awkward way to do things. You would have to put the file inside the program package when you wanted to use that argument and remove it when you were through with it. That is a lot more trouble than just making a modified shortcut.
 
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