Re: [MacPerl] using System with Mac Perl

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 12:39 -0700 2000.09.25, jtownsen wrote:
>I'd like to use system to launch a Mac app then continue the Perl script
>once the app is done.

You can't.  Well, you could, but you would need some program available to
MPW to launch those.  MacPerl's system(), like on Unix, gives you access to
the shell.  The shell, in this case, is MPW, and you can only call tools
that can be run from it.

To launch an app use Mac::Apps::Launch.  It comes with cpan-mac and is on
CPAN by itself.

Or you could use Mac::Processes, which is what Mac::Apps::Launch is a
wrapper around, directly.

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