I'm a newbie for MacPerl and AppleScript (especially the latter). I'm making a script to control MacPerl STDOUT and STDERR from AppleScript. I want to run a MacPerl script written in the variables of AppleScript, and to receive STDOUT and STDERR of MacPerl into the variables of AppleScript. According to the file "MacPerl.Frontend" in the MacPerl Application Package, It describes the followings: ----------------------------------------------------------- Event: "Do Script" [misc/dosc] Direct parameter: A file [fss ], text [TEXT] or a list of files and text. Reply: Text results, depending on mode. "extract" [EXTR] (opt): A boolean [bool] which when false prevents searching for a #! line. "debug" [DEBG] (opt): A boolean which when true runs the Perl debugger "mode" [MODE] (opt): A mode [MODE], one of Local [LOCL], Batch [BATC], Remote [RCTL], or Duplex [DPLX]. ...(omitted) - Batch mode redirects standard output and error to the reply apple event. Standard output is put into the direct parameter of the reply, while standard error is put into element [diag] of parameter [OUTP]. ----------------------------------------------------------- I found that I may use Batch mode, but I don't know the meanings of [diag], [OUTP], etc. and I don't know how to use these. For example, ----------------------------------------------------------- set scriptText to " print \"Hello, MacPerl STDOUT!\\n\"; print STDERR \"Hello, MacPerl STDERR!\\n\"; " tell application "MacPerl" Do Script scriptText mode Batch set stdoutText to result -- set stderrText to XXXXXX -- I don't know how define this end tell stdoutText -- stderrText -- not defined ----------------------------------------------------------- I can get STDOUT to the variable "stdoutText", but I don't know how to get STDERR into the variable "stderrText". Please teach me! --- Tomohisa Iwanaga iwanaga@crl.hitachi.co.jp ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch