[Stavros Kassinos] has generously donated an example [1] which demonstrates how to use Applescript as an IPC mechanism (Inventory of IPC methods) for the control of a legacy FORTRAN application by a thin Tcl wrapper.

Cameron Laird is exceptionally fond of this architecture of thinly wrapped legacy applications [refer to papers by Alex and JCW?], and has published several pieces on it, including a three-part series [2] for "Regular Expressions [3].

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