Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!geaclib!rae
From: rae@geaclib.UUCP (Reid Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Running MPW tools without MPW [was Re: awk]
Keywords: mpw, mpw tools, awk, creator, type
Message-ID: <3625@geaclib.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 89 08:38:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: geaclib.3625
References: <7094@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: rae@geaclib.UUCP (Reid Ellis)
Organization: T'nir Software
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engber@shorty.cs.wisc.edu (Mike Engber) writes:
|I've gotten several positive responses to my orignal request for awk, but
|they all run under the MPW shell (which I don't use). Has anyone got it
|running as a standalone application?                   

Just as a general point, and as something Mike might want to try, it
should be noted that MPW tools *can* be run as standalone applications.  Of
course, you cannot supply command-line arguments, but that can't be helped.
Simply changing the type of the file from "MPST" to "APPL" [and the creator
from "MPS " to "????" or something, unless you want to conflict with MPW
itself] will allow you to run the program.

Note: this is not a recommended general practice.  It's probably
best thought of as an interesting side effect of the way MPW works.

How hard would it be to write a PD standalone shell that only allowed MPW
tools to be run and did nothing else?  Single window etc.

Reid
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