I know almost nothing about Perl, and joined this list to ask one question.
I really hope somebody can steer me in the right direction.
We have a digital asset management system that's heavily scripted in Perl,
and runs in conjunction with Oracle on an RS-6000 under AIX. The mac client
to this system is slow and clumsy, so I'd like to write a simple front end
utility program (in REALbasic) for adding photos and artwork to the
database from our Macs. Can MacPerl serve as a means of communication
between a Mac application and Perl on AIX? Or, since REALbasic apps under
OS X can generate Unix terminal commands, perhaps it could communicate
directly with Perl on the RS-6000. Or since REALbasic can communicate with
Oracle, perhaps it could bypass Perl and talk directly to Oracle.
Has anyone on this list had experience with something like this?
Thanks,
Rick Johnson
