[MacPerl] arbitrary Toolbox calls

[Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>]

From: Geoffrey C Kinnel <kinnelg@bms.com>
>...
>Unless there's a way to get MacPerl to call an arbitrary Toolbox call,
>you'd have to use a C routine via XS, I imagine.

This is a really provocative question.  If we could make arbitrary Toolbox
calls, even at a high performance penalty, it might open up a great deal
of experimentation.

So, MacPerlies, is there a way to do this?  For instance, is it possible
to create appropriate data structures and then force a call to Mac OS?  I
realize that making this all work smoothly might be tricky, but Matthias
has other things to do than port the remain several thousand calls, so it
might be worth a look...

-r
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