I'm trying to figure out if it's possible with OS X 10.1 native tools (and nothing added) to use Perl scripts to open any application on a volume (in my case, mostly SEA archives and DMG files) from with Internet Explorer.
I have solved everything except the essential bit: How do I trigger a client-side Perl script? (As I said, must be plain Jane; I cannot start up Apache because the product will be running on machines over which I have no control.) I started thinking this would be easy, but on further consideration, I'm worried that the only way to start a process from within the browser is to use Java, and I have absolutely no knowledge or experience of Java. (And, 'natch, don't have much time to learn it for my project.) Any thoughts? Thanks, Tim -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Tim Warner mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Beating a Dead Horse - A 'dead horse' was the seaman's term for the first month at sea--a month for which they were paid in advance. Because sailors typically spent their money very quickly, it therefore seemed to them that their first month's labor at sea was for nothing. To mark the end of the 'dead horse' month, the crew would make an effigy of a horse and parade it around the decks (on passenger ships money would be collected). Then with great noise and celebration the horse would be hoisted to the end of a yard, cut down and dropped into the sea. No doubt there was the established understanding of beating a dead animal to work but to ship's officers 'flogging a dead horse' described the difficulty of getting the crew to do any extra work during the first 'unpaid' month at sea. --from Salty Dog Talk by B. Beavis and R. McCloskey ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
