[MacPerl] Exec()ing programs in MacPerl

[Erin Shaw <shaw@isi.edu>]

(And I'm not kidding!)

What I'd like to do is click on a [web page] link and launch an
application (a Director Projector), but I haven't succeeded in
configuring my browser correctly.  So instead, I execute a &MacPerl'
DoAppleScript command in a MacPerl CGI script to launch the
application.  This works well except that, since exec() isn't
supported, the Perl script continues to run, and Netscape continues to
churn until I exit the application.

1. Would it be easier to just run the AppleScript command as a CGI
   script? (I'll need to pass variables to it, of course.)

2. Has anyone implemented a workaround for exec()?

3. And on the off chance, does anyone know how to configure a browser
   to launch Director Projectors???

Too many questions.

Thanks,
Erin

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