A previous thread involved calling a shell script from MacPerl even though the operating system was OS neXt and real perl was available. This led me to the problem I have seen before which is how to make a UNIX executable into an application which can be double-clicked from the finder or "opened" by a high level event - an AppleEvent.
I have spent some time developing a tcsh script that will do that. When I have time I intend to create a drag-and-drop application - using AppleScript - that will do its thing when a script file is simply dropped onto an icon. I invite your attention to: <ftp://ftp.macnauchtan.com/Software/PrepAPPL/> and the files therein, in particular: <ftp://ftp.macnauchtan.com/Software/PrepAPPL/ReadMe_PrepAPPL.text> and <ftp://ftp.macnauchtan.com/Software/PrepAPPL/PrepAPPL.scr> More to come as I have time. -- --> On the eighth day, about 6 kiloyears ago, the Lord realized that free will would make man ask what existed before the Creation. So He installed a few gigayears of history complete with a big bang and a fossilized record of evolution. <--
