Re: [MacPerl] Fetch (FTP) solves the MacBinary problem!

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

charles@jolt.mpx.com.au (Charles Cave) writes:
>I use the "Fetch" FTP client on my Macintosh, and it will
>automatically handle the MacBinary format. I would have
>preferred the Binhex format for distribution, because then
>I could get the files through my office Internet connection
>(Unix).

a) MacBinary works through Unix connections, provided you use Binary mode
   for ftp transfers (I do that all the time).
b) The reason I insist on MacBinary is that it saves about 30% disk space and
   net bandwidth vs. BinHex.
c) I will "soon" submit MacPerl 5.0.7 to sumex & co., and since they have a
   BinHex policy, BinHex fans will be satisfied too.

>I will stay with version 4.1.3 as it appears to do everything
>I want

Fine. Just don't expect me to fix any bugs :-)

>I downloaded 4.1.8 and then discovered from the Web pages
>that droplets don't work

Oh they do, you just need the right extensions.

>How can I get Macperl to talk to another application such
>as Netscape of JPEGView to do something like "display this
>JPEG file" or "open this URL". I would like to write
>some data processing programs to massage data and then
>send the results to Excel. The obvious way is to write to
>a file and open it with Excel, but an interactive method
>would be preferable.
>
>I don't have Applescript on my machine.

You can get AppleScript from me if you want. MacPerl5 now has direct AppleEvent
support, but MacPerl4 can "only" do AppleScript.

Matthias

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