Re: [MACTCL] exec on mac

[Jon G. <jg...@hi...>]

At 3:59 PM +0100 3/12/02, Jack Jansen wrote:
>For Python there's an extension module that uses AppleEvents to talk
>to the MPW tool server and thereby provide functionality to
>exec()/system(), through the 'misc'/'dosc' event. You could do
>something similar for Tcl, I guess.

Sure. Either TclAppleScript 
<http://tcl.activestate.com/software/mac/AppleScript.html> or TclAE 
<http://www.his.com/jguyer/Alpha/TclAE%20Help/> can call MPW's 
misc/dosc event.

>This only gives you access to stuff compiled as an MPW tool, not to
>general applications, but for general applications it would be
>unclear anyway what "output" would mean.

Yep, this is the rub. AppleEvents are extraordinarily powerful... 
between agreeable apps...
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   Jonathan E. Guyer
   <http://www.his.com/jguyer/>