Re: [MacPerl] Running an MPW Tool within MPWs MacPerl?

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

Paul Steinkamp <steinkam@apple.com> writes:
>Due to some of the *lovely* aspects of MPW quoting, I'd like to convert a 
>series of my current MPW scripts to the ease and consistency!! of 
>MacPerl. My major block at this point is that the Perl scripts will 
>definitely have to call some MPW tools. 
>
>Is there a way in MacPerl to invoke an MPW tool without having to also 
>have toolserver running?

There definitely has to be something MPW Shellish running, but I see two 
ways in which it can be made something else than toolserver:

 - You can send a "Do Script" event to the MPW *Shell* if the shell is running
   anyway.
 - You can run your script with the MPW version of Perl and do a maneuver I
   call the "MPW Shuffle":

perl -Sx "{0}" One {Param1}
... MPW Shell stuff ...
perl -Sx "{0}" Two {param2}
... MPW Shell stuff ...
perl -Sx "{0}" Three {Param3}
Exit {Status}

#!perl

$what = @ARGV;

if ($what eq "One") {
  .. Perl stuff...
} elsif ($what eq "Two") {
  .. Perl stuff...
}

... and so on. Works great if there are not too many MPW Tools involved.

Matthias

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