At 14:01 -0700 2001.03.04, Doug McNutt wrote:
>Abstract:
>1) MacPerl open() call does not demand exclusive access for writing.
+< does not mean you are asking for exclusive access. I'm not sure why you
think it does.
>2) MPW tool version induces system crash.
I've heard of problems with calling AppleScript from MPW before, but I
don't know much about the problem.
>3) stat() $nlink doesn't work.
Hm, $nlink is number of hard links. I believe Mac OS does not have any
sense of the idea of Unix hard links, so $nlink would not apply. Mac OS
has symbolic links.
>There is also Mac::glue which I still don't understand because of a
>personal lack of interest in object oriented solutions.
AppleScript is OOP (although it may not look like it). Any solution which
attempts to be functionally equivalent to AppleScript will also, most of
the time, be OOP. Although I should add that many people who have looked
at Mac::Glue say it isn't "real" OOP. Sometimes you just can't win, and
you shouldn't bother trying. :)
But Mac::Glue just does Apple events. If you can't do it in AppleScript,
chances are you can't do it in Mac::Glue or raw Apple events.
Have you considered using URL Access instead of Netscape?
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