MetaCard to MetaCard conversation...

[Richard MacLemale]

I do a real lot of work with MetaCard Darwin under OS X Server 10.  I
understand the complications with trying to make MetaCard for OS X do shell
commands, and while I hope that one day those problems will be resolved, I
basically do most of my stuff directly with the darwin engine instead, which
works fine, but of course has no GUI.

So I was wondering if anyone has explored the possibility of MetaCard for OS
X talking to MetaCard for Darwin, in any way, shape, or form.  One obvious
hack example would be to use MetaCard for OS X to modify a cron file to
schedule a mt script to run (with darwin mc running the script.)  That's
really hacky, but you get the idea.

Has anyone walked down this path?  I guess the usual methods of AppleScript
and AppleEvents are out, but maybe there's something (besides cron!) that
I'm missing?

:)
Richard MacLemale
Instructional Technology Specialist
James W. Mitchell High School
http://mitchellonline.pasco.k12.fl.us