On 19/9/00, rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu (Ronald J Kimball) wrote: > I'm curious why didn't look at the more recent archives, since there > was a detailed thread on this question on the main MacPerl list just > last week. > > http://bumppo.net/lists/macperl/2000/09/msg00018.html > > :) I failed to search sorted by date! Thanks very much for your pointer - my problem has been comprehensively answered by the postings there. The following works for me: ------- set PerlScript to "Rory:Desktop Folder:test.pl" tell application "MacPerl" Do Script {PerlScript, "1", "2"} set r to the result end tell display dialog r -------- #!perl -w print @ARGV; MacPerl::Reply("answer"); Thanks again. Rory -- Rory Campbell-Lange + The Campbell-Lange Workshop London ==== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ==== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-forum-request@macperl.org