Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl, Mac OS 8, and AppleScript

[bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur)]

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 07:57:58 -0500, Chris Nandor wrote:

>At 06.58 -0500 1999.02.23, Peter Westlake wrote:
>>Is MacPerl 5.2.0r4 compatible with Mac OS 8.1 and 8.5.1?
...
>Hm.  The following here does nothing?
>
>  #!perl -w
>  $script = 'display dialog "foo"';
>  MacPerl::DoAppleScript($script);
>
>That is odd.  You might have a broken MacPerl app or something.  I've never
>had a problem with anything like that.  I'd try to get a new copy of the
>MacPerl app installed.  Maybe someone else has an idea.

I'd rather suspect Applescript. On the MACSCRPT mailing list, which
deals mostly with Applescript, the subject of Applescripts that broke on
OS8.x, gets mentioned a lot. As I've understood, they've been succesfuil
in ironing out the worst bugs out of AS, but it's still not as reliable
on OS8.x, as it was on OS7.x.


	Bart.

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