[platypus-dev] STDOUT from Perl goes nowhere??

Dear All,

I am trying to use Platypus as a wrapper to re-create Perl Droplets I used to have on OS 9 (made with MacPerl). I got the basic functionality to work in Platypus 4.1 as 4.2 does not seem to communicate the address of a dropped file to Perl (see other thread in this mailing list). I am using the standard Perl installation that comes with OS X (/usr/bin/perl).

Where I run into problems is with print to STDOUT. On the command line, the output printed shows up as expected. With the droplet and the output window activated the window shows up briefly but vanishes when the script ends. If I pause the Perl script at the end, the output window stays open but there is no output whatsoever. Same when I use the HTML option.

???

Uli Wienands
Mac OS X 10.5.8; Platypus 4.1, Perl 5.8.8 (Apple's standard Perl installation in /usr/bin/perl).

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