Re: [MacPerl] Apple Events over TCP/IP

[Dick Munroe <munroe@acornsw.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 ...

While I haven't looked at it much, perhaps the Darwin Open Source 
code could be a source for this sort of thing...  Selected pieces of 
the Mac architecture running on U*x boxes could be pretty cool.

Dick
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