[Active4d-dev] Do Shell Script

[Steve Alex]

Does anyone know a way of executing the equivalent of "Do Shell Script" 
in AppleScript with either Active4D or 4D? Have not done as much 
AppleScript in OX X as I did in 9, but having something like:

on sendForm(this_URL, theData)
	return do shell script "curl " & (quoted form of this_URL) & " -F " & 
(quoted form of theData)
end sendForm

set theQuery to "web4d.xxx.xxx/4dcgi/mtc"
set formData to "data=" & "<week dt='20050509' stuff='other stuff' />"
set theHTML to my sendForm(theQuery, formData)
is just an example (sending a form/query to a remote server) of some of 
what you can do interacting with OS X's underbelly, Unix.

I think I remember that 4D 2004 may have some hooks into the shell, but 
don't think we're going there! I've done some simple TCP/IP stuff with 
the 4D internet commands, but curl has a lot more flexibility. There 
are also some other thing not related to the internet that would be 
useful.

Steve Alex
AIDT

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