So I have this HyperCard stack that serves as a CGI backend...
It runs on the 1GHz G4 server that sits in my office, about 18 inches from my computer.
Both machines run Mac OS X. HyperCard runs in Classic (of course).
Since my HyperCard stack requires hands-on intervention any time something goes wrong or I need to make any changes, I find myself scuttling back and forth from time to time.
Needless to say, cutting and pasting from one to the other is out of the question (well, I suppose I could use pbpaste and scp). Writing custom scripts for ad hoc reports, etc. is a problem because the stack runs as a standalone; hence you can't just pull up a card script and edit it.
So I wrote this little shell script...
#!/bin/sh
if [ -z "$1" ]; then args=$(cat <&0) else args="$*" fi
htscript=$( { echo 'lock error dialogs'; echo "$args"; } \ | perl -pe 's/\n/\\r/g; s/"/\\"/g' ) echo "tell app \"tls.cgi\" to do script \"$htscript\"" \ | osascript | perl -pe 's/\r/\n/g'
% tls return number of cds in bg 1
% tls >recipes.txt put "" into reports repeat with i = 1 to number of cds in bg "Recipes" put (bg fld "Title" of cd i) & return after reports end repeat return reports
% tls 'return somethingOrOther()' | grep ...
