It is entirely possible that Applescript is intentionally changing
directory to a temporary directory before executing external programs as a
security measure.

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017, 00:41 debt <d...@fannullone.us> wrote:

>         Please disregard my last email.  Apparently you have to supply
> full paths (as Thomas mentioned) to everything when dealing with
> inter-language communications.  After I added the full path to the file
> name in the Perl script, it worked as it should.  I don’t understand why,
> but at least I know now.
>
>         In case anyone else is dealing with this, Perl (or any other
> language, I'm guessing) will need the full path to any file when being
> called from AppleScript.  Even though the Perl script worked fine without
> it when run directly, it's required when being called from AppleScript.
>
> Thanks again,
> Marc
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