Perhaps saving it as a standalone application?
At 09:57 -0400 07/02/2001, Katherine Richmond wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I am running Cron Software to control script execution. You list the times and
>the scripts you want run. Does anyone know if it is possible to have
>Cron tell a
>perl script to run? Then I would not have to call the perl script from within
>AppleScript. I tried listing the perl script in the crontab file. It didn't do
>anything.
>
>So my next effort was to call a Perl script from an AppleScript. I
>am trying it
>like this:
>
>tell application "Finder"
> activate
> tell application "MacPerl"
> DoScript("parseCernerFiles2.pl")
> end tell
>end tell
>
>I can run the Perl script with no problems, but when I ask
>AppleScript to do it,
>I get this error:
>
>"MacPerl got an error. Can't continue DoScript." Is there something about the
>interaction between AppleScript and MacPerl that I am overlooking?
>
>On page 249 of Chris Nandor's 'MacPerl Power and Ease', there is an example of
>calling MacPerl from AppleScript. It looks like you have to put the
>entire perl
>script inside the AppleScript? Is this the only way to do it?
>
>Thanks,
>Kathy
