Re: [MacPerl] Command (backtick) operators in MPW Perl

["David C. Schooley" <schooley@ee.gatech.edu>]

At 5:30 PM -0500 on 1/29/98, Chris Nandor supposedly said:
>At 17.21 98.01.29, David C. Schooley wrote:
>>Macperl.pod implies that the backtick operator will work under ToolServer, and
>>therefore MPW. I haven't been able to get it to work except for the special
>>cases like `Directory`. I would like to be able to spawn off other MPW scripts
>>and tools. Has anybody gotten this to work?
>
>When I use the backticks for non-special cases, ToolServer launches.
>Beyond that I can't say much.  :)
>

It works when you use the MacPerl application, but not MPW perl. I was hoping MPW perl could run other MPW things as sub-processes, but apparently that won't work.

later,

---Dave---


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