Re: [MacPerl] AppleEvents from MacPerl?

[darrylc@foothills.eznet.com]

You should request Chris Nandor's totally cool Anarchie.pm module. It's 
great.

On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Dan Bongert wrote:

> I wish to replace BatchFTP with a MacPerl script (since Perl beats
> AppleScript hands down 8^). What this script does is read in a file of
> files to download, one per line, and retrieves them from the remote host.
> I use it for going throught the Info-Mac Digest and grabbing everything I
> like. Anyway, for reasons unknown to me, this particular Applescript does
> not work anymore, and instead of learning yet another language to find the
> problem, I decided to wrtie a replacement using a language I do know,
> Perl.
> 
> Here is my problem: I don't know how to tell Anarchie (or Fetch, or
> whatever) to download a file. The Applescript used the 'geturl' AppleEvent
> for Anarchie, and a way to do that probably would be useful. I've been
> through the POD for ADesc (or whatever it's called--I don't have it in
> front of me), but that didn't really help. Is something like this
> possible?
> 
> Dan Bongert                | Hire the Morally Handicapped--It's More Fun
> dbongert@students.wisc.edu | National Institute for the Morally Handicapped
> herkimer@upl.cs.wisc.edu   | just a guy made of dots and lines
> 
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