Sorry for what I'm positive is a dopey question, but I'm a rank
beginner at Perl in general and MacPerl in particular. I *have* spent
literally hours going through the archives of this list and the
MacPerl documentation trying to help myself, and I see fragments of
answers but nothing that has yet worked for me...
I am using a wonderful Perl script called MHonArc 2.5 -- in fact this
is the same script that is used to create the MacPerl archives on the
web.
(For info: http://www.nacs.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/MHonArc/doc/mhonarc.html )
My procedure for using MHonarc on my Mac is this:
* Start MacPerl (5.2.0r4)
* I do Command-R to run a script, then I select the MHonArc script
* I get a prompt for a command line, then I type:
mailboxname -outdir :outputpath -rcfile resourcefile.rsc -add
This works great, and MHonArc speedily creates a set of web pages for
me based on my Eudora mailbox.
My problem is that I can't figure out how to automate it, and I'll
need to do it once a day. On a unix system one would just type
something on the shell like:
# mhonarc mailboxname -outdir :outputpath -rcfile
resourcefile.rsc -add
And so it would be really easy to make a shellscript to do this.
I've tried writing an AppleScript, and I can launch MacPerl and
MHonArc from AppleScript just fine, but I can't figure out how to
simulate typing in the command line. (There are a ton of posts on
this topic in the MacPerl list archives, with many different
solutions to this issue, but none of the solutions seem to work for
me.)
In any event, it seems a little silly to use AppleScript for this -
but I don't even know how to get started to write a simple MacPerl
script that will start up another existing script and feed it the
correct command line options.
Any advice? Thanks. -Steve
