Re: [MacPerl] web cgi question

[Anthony Eden <aeden@mail.vcn.net>]

Droplets work by storing the names of files dropped on it in
the variable @ARGV.  This same thing is done on UNIX by including
the filenames in the command line argument.  Thus, a droplet saved
as plain text will work on UNIX systems as described.

Sincerely,
Anthony Eden
Hurricane Online Editor

On Thu, 30 May 1996, p sears wrote:

> Thanks for all the help, folks!  I think I understand how to trade MAC
> scripts with UNIX people now -
> 1. save a perl script as plain text
> 2. start the script with #!/path/to/perl/program/
> 3. make sure the script contains no 'mac specific' calls in it
> 
> and then it should run on any UNIX machine that is running Perl?
> 
> So what about droplets and runtime versions?  Those are only for the mac
> platform?
> (Machttp cgi scripts seems pretty self explanatory, they will not run
> anywhere but on a mac)
> 
> I am so glad I have so many virtual friends that are willing to answer a
> novice's questions!
> 
> _______________________________________________________
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