At 4:16 pm -0800 16/1/04, Chris Nandor wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Delacour) wrote:
$asresult = `osascript -e '$ass'`;
FWIW: this is a bit dangerous, and slow. You would need to make sure the script did not contain any bad shell characters combined with a wayward '.
Yes, of course -- and I can thing of no way round it in this case. However the applet method is very fast. I need to work out the semaphore bit because the Finder is too slow to update and you can't rely on modification times.
JD
