I have a MacPerl script I am trying to transfer from OS9 to OSX.
There are two problems: cron and a progress bar.
Regarding 'cron', the perl script is kicked off by an AS application, so the problem really is how to get the AS application to run at specific times.
The second problem is how to replace the MacPerl Progress Bar in OSX perl.
As to the scheduling, if you're not going to use cron or some third party utility to launch the application, then you can run the application as stay-open with an idle handler such as the script below.
As to the "progress bar", I'd need to know what you mean.
property _times : {"06:45am", "12:20pm", "12:35pm"}
property _midnight : "0"---idle --uncomment to test
on idle set _now to (current date) - (get date _midnight) repeat with t in _times set _alarm to (date t) - (get date _midnight) set _difference to _alarm - _now if _difference is less than 0 and ¬ _difference is greater than -2 * minutes then doThis() return 2 * minutes --(rerun idle in 2 minutes) end if end repeat _alarm end idle on doThis() do shell script "perl -e ' $f = qq~/tmp/date.txt~ ; open F, qq~>$f~ ; print F scalar localtime ; `open -e $f` ; '" end doThis
