In a word, NO.
What you describe - to my knowledge - can't be done with PERL. You
can pipe text commands to your input API - and that's it. You can't
emulate mouse clicks/drags or keyboard input. That's not what PERL is
used for.
What you describe - attempting to get around using
Just a note:
I don't know if this is related or not, but recently I had a situation
where I was attempting to back up OS/X borne files to an OS/9 server.
They had lengthy filenames. Every time I tried doing a 'drag-copy' I
received an error -35 message.
After breaking the sub-folders down
Since we're lumping in Jaguar with .Mac already, I might as well take a
chance to sound off also.
No - I haven't done it - taken either plunge, just yet.
I am VERY annoyed with Apple for the bait switch mentality which
they're using with their LOYAL CUSTOMER BASE. That's something that
And to clarify this point just a tiny bit more:
Mac OS/X is 'a' UNIX. It is an implementation of the FreeBSD UNIX
variant.
Furthermore, it is - in fact - the most widely used UNIX 'flavor' in the
world today.
It is however, still considered 'new' therefore many have been slow to
adapt to
Since no one else is playing Devil's Advocate I guess it's my turn:
While I think it's a Good Thing to have shared resources, one must be
careful not to over-specialize.
There are a number of existing sites out there such as www.perlmonks.com
and everythingmac.org which could also be
I do a lot of work with Filemaker Pro, MySQL, HTML Perl. My best
advice is to simply create a batch output process for your static or
semi-static datum. Provided that you have the storage space on your
server, the file system will ALWAYS be faster than ANY database to
retrieve data from.
