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

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 18.02 98.01.29, David C. Schooley wrote:
>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.

print `date -n`;  #works in MacPerl app
perl -e 'print `date -n`'  #works in perl MPW tool

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