John,

I did what you said, and it worked perfectly. I haven't tried mode batch tho.
The one thing I haven't yet figured out is what command would close the output window 
opened by MacPerl for various diags. Any idea ?

Thanks very much
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On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 14:06:33 +0100, John Delacour wrote:

>Just tell MacPerl to do the script in the droplet rather than launching 
>the droplet.  If you launch the droplet it will just go about its 
>business independently.

>Suppose at "dx08:Users:jd:temp:macperltemp.pl" I have a droplet with the 
>script

>   # "dx08:Users:jd:temp:macperltemp.plx"
>   #!perl
>   print "\a"

>and I run this AppleScript script:

>set _script to alias "dx08:Users:jd:temp:macperltemp.plx"
>tell app "MacPerl" to Do Script _script

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