Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl shared lib?

[schinder@pjstoaster.pg.md.us (Paul Schinder)]

jerry@pwa.acusd.edu (Jerry Stratton) writes:
} >For BBEdit extensions, writing glue packages is IMHO preferrable.
} 
} Are there any instructions or guidelines anywhere on writing glues? I'd
} like to be able to call Perl scripts directly from Cron; it requires
} accepting appleevents, much in the same way that web cgis on the Mac
} must accept appleevents. Since there is a Perl CGI glue, I suspect that
} a Cron glue isn't impossible :*)

You can already launch Perl scripts with a reasonable Macintosh cron,
like for example Mark Malson's.  I do this several times daily.
Malson's works by using an alias to the droplet in cron's folder with
the usual cron pattern for the time(s) of launch as a name, but all you
really have to do is tell the Finder to open the droplet at the time
you want and away you go.  (This is a useful Applescript trick: if the
application itself isn't scriptable, the Finder can always be told to
open one of the application's documents.) Surely the other Cron's can
do this?

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