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

[Bruce Van Allen <bva@cruzio.com>]

My $.02 on the current mystery:

>At 07:57 1999-02-23 -0500, Chris Nandor wrote:
>>At 06.58 -0500 1999.02.23, Peter Westlake wrote:
>...Whenever I cannot diagnose a problem, I:
>
>* Restart
>* Check for viruses (if check fails, try again later)

[good advice snipped]

>>Update: it *appears* to do nothing, but in fact inflicts enough
[snip]

>Hm, something is hosed.  You might need a system reinstall.  Do the
>troubleshooting above, then think about a move on to a MacPerl reinstall,
>and then a system reinstall.
>
>But maybe someone else has some easier solutions first.  But it sounds
>pretty serious to me, that I would at least try the troubleshooting above.

There's this phrase in Peter's original posting that I keep coming back to:

>All it does is run an application (which
>happens to be an earlier version of MacPerl with a script
>built in) and get it to read commands from a file and quit.

"All it does is..." That's an alert if I ever saw one. Those who know more
than I should comment: I know it's possible to have 2 (or more) copies of
MacPerl installed, and run them both Mac-simultaneously. Yes? How about
when they're different versions? Is it possible Peter's trouble started
with something related to having one version of MP call another, perhaps
with the trouble coming from the original script -- the "built-in" one --
or the "commands from a file"? Something might have trashed the MP
preferences file (or the Finder preferences file), causing problems to show
up later. What exactly does that earlier script do? Does it have any
system-related calls?

- Bruce

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