Re: [MacPerl] Still trying to print from MacPerl...

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 1.00 -0400 1999.05.21, firebug@apk.net wrote:
>As Chris ( and others ) have suggested, I'm tring to use Applescript to tell
>BBedit to print:
>
>#!perl -w
>
>$temp = 'myfile.print';
>open(F, "> $temp") or die $!;
>print F "my text to print";
>close(F);
>
>MacPerl::DoAppleScript <<EOS;
>tell app "BBEdit 3.5"
> print "$temp"
>end
>EOS
>
>unlink($temp) or die $!;
>
>But when I run this BBedit starts, but then MacPerl comes back with "Out of
>memory!"
>
>MacPerl doesn't seem to be using a lot of ram, and I have 96 Megs in my G3.
>
>Any ideas?

Not sure about the memory.  One thing I am fairly sure of is that you need:

  print alias "$temp"

Not just:

  print "$temp"

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