Re: [MacPerl] AppleScript front end to MacPerl

["Jay Bedsole" <rwdd30@email.sps.mot.com>]

To all who've asked and those who didn't...

Quentin Smith has graciously agreed to put my AppleScript front
end to MacPerl (cli4mp) on his site. You can download a zipped
version from:

    http://members.tripod.com/ComClub/cli4mp.zip

Thanks Quentin!


One caveat. Over the weekend, I seemed to have found a bug.
Or maybe it's a limitation...

I haven't been able to investigate very thoroughly, but the
problem seems to be with larger MacPerl scripts. When I try
to run cli4mp with a larger perl script, AppleScript quits
unexpectedly with error type 2. Not before, however it sends
a mutated version of the script to MacPerl (well I think it's
mutated). In this particular script, there are some messages
that print out from a subroutine at the end of the file and
these print OK, but the script never terminates... it just
keeps on chugging, doing God knows what. I haven't tried to
debug it yet.

I haven't figured out what the boundary conditions are, but I
ran a number of perl scripts in the half a K range with no
problem and one that was about 4K which caused the problem.
When I run this same script from Alpha (with it's command line
arg interface) it works just fine, so I'm reasonably sure
there's not a problem with the script, per se.

Still, it seems to work for smaller test scripts, which is
what I designed it for in the first place... (he said,
rationalizing in a feeble attempt to preserve his ego...)


jay

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