Good morning fellow monks:) I have a problem with a script I wrote that is being installed on a Mac (OS 8.6 I think). The script runs fine but has to run continuously. The script parses information from 2 files that are FTPed to the server every half hour. It then sends the information to a .js file for use on a webpage. I originally developed the script to produce the page (worked great, only ran when page called) but the company has to be able to edit the page in a program called GoLive?? which won't open the file. I am currently using sleep() and this causes the problem because the Mac doesn't seem to multi-task very well. i.e. if you have another script to run it doesn't! Does anybody have a work around or a way to call the script from the HTML page? Thanks, gang!

In reply to Problem with MacPerl by gambler

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