Re: [MacPerl] Controlling ToolServer from MacPerl

[Peter Westlake <peter@harlequin.co.uk>]

At 14:24 1999-08-25 -0700, Brian McNett wrote:
>> Ummm...just pipe it to Rez. MacPerl will use ToolServer if installed. For
>> example, this works:
>>
>> open PIPE, "| Rez -o :test";
>> print PIPE 'data \'fwst\' (-16564) {
>> 	$"0008 00A8 0092 013F 0163 08CA 003B E7DA"
>> 	$"003B 003B 0106"
>> };';
>> close PIPE;
>
>Ah, yes!  See, there *was* a reason for my not wanting to reinvent the 
>wheel.  One tends to forget that pipes are available to MacPerl with 
>Toolserver, as they're not generally available otherwise.  I will try 
>this....  Later:  Yeehaa!  Whoop, whoop, whoop!  Of course, it works the 
>first time!

Toolserver also supports system() and backquotes, just like on Unix.

Peter.


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