Re: [MacPerl] Apple Events over TCP/IP

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 00.14 +0200 1999.10.27, Axel M. Roest wrote:
>At Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:12:39 -0400, Chris Nandor wrote:
>>So I got the beta universal interfaces for Mac OS 9 from that URL there,
>>and looked at EPPC.h and PPCToolbox.h until my eyes bled, and I put
>>together a working prototype.  We have AEs over TCP/IP under Mac OS 9!
>>Woop!
>
>Cool! We can script our Macs over the internet. Do you think it is possible
>to port this functionality of Mac::Glue to other, e.g. unix perls?

No.  You need the Apple event manager and other proprietary Apple things.
You could try to fake it, but I wouldn't want to.


>It would
>be awesome to be able to script your Mac from a unix box. For that we need
>to know the exact package format that travels to-and-from the AE sender &
>receiver. I don't know if this information is freely available, yet.

It is more than just sending and receiving.  The AE manager does various
coercions and other things behind the scenes.

Maybe it is "possible," but ...

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