Re: [MacPerl] Too many arguments?

[David Steffen <steffen@biomedcomp.com>]

Jonathan Eunice said:

>I'm running into a situation where drag-and-drop of file
>arguments onto a MacPerl droplet fails silently.  If I
>drag and drop 25 files at a time, say, it works.  @ARGV
>... 55 at a time, ... fails

Me too :-)

In retrospect, I should have reported this, but was in the middle of a
project and just taught the client "no more than 25 files".  Later, I
worked around it by changing the program so that one puts all the files in
a folder, drags the folder on the droplet, and then MacPerl uses glob("*")
to retrieve the list of files.  (This seems pretty obvious, but I can
supply a code fragment if anyone would like.)

Documentation of precisely what the limit is would be a good thing.  Does
anyone know?

-David Steffen-

David Steffen, Ph.D.
President, Biomedical Computing, Inc. <http://www.biomedcomp.com/>
Phone: (713) 610-9770 FAX: (713) 610-9769 E-mail: steffen@biomedcomp.com



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