Re: [MacPerl] Re: MacPerl::DoAppleScript and Perl v5.10.0

[email protected] (Chris Nandor) Mon, 7 Mar 2011 05:31:04 -0800
Newsgroups perl.macperl
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On Mar 6, 2011, at 09:44, David Micklem wrote:

> I thought that MacPerl::DoAppleScript dated back to pre-OS X MacPerl

MacPerl::DoAppleScript() is part of Mac-Carbon, which is a port of much =
of the old MacPerl modules to Mac OS X (which is actually included with =
every Mac, although it won't work unless you tell it to use 32 bits!).


> You might try osascript instead.

Yes, although it's usually significantly slower, and slightly more =
error-prone (because of the shell interface).

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