At 12:24 +0900 2004.02.18, Iyanaga Nobumi wrote: >Now, I understand that my question could seem very odd. This may be a >very special case. I am running OS 10.3.2 with Classic environment. I >am writing a script using MacPerl, because I have to use Mac::Fonts, >which does not exist for OS X Perl (and I understand why: OS X font >handling seems very different from Mac OS). I thought that if I could >run shell scripts from within this script, that would be very handy. >But I don't need that absolutely. I just wondered it that would be >possible.
You can call Mac OS X apps from MacPerl under Classic, so if some other application provided an event like do shell script, you could use it. But do shell script itself is provided by the Standard Additions OSAX, which is not available to Classic. -- Chris Nandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://osdn.com/