Trying to run an older perl drag-and-drop program

Question

At work we have a perl program that does a wonderful job of transforming a pre-edited (with tags) text file into an html document ready for the web including lots of external references to technical journals.
This was written eight or nine years ago in the Mac Classic days. There are three files. One is called formatter9. This has a camel icon with a circle with a line through it.
Then there is one called formatter9.pl and one called f9.template. The template is referenced in the formatter9.pl. I go into formatter9.pl and change the month each time before we use it at least 40 or 50 times during the course of a week.
This drag and drop application worked fine with Classic OS 9 loaded on PPC Macs, but not on Intel Macs.
I am able to run it on an Intel Mac with OS X 10.5 in terminal with an input file (called, for example, filename.txt) by entering:
perl formatter9.pl filename.txt
It would be nice to get this to work as a drag-and-drop in OS X, though. I've picked up a perl book, but it's new to me and I don't work with any techies.
My thought is that it might be as simple as changing the first few lines of code in the perl script. They are:
use strict;
my $isDroplet = 0; # 0=false, 1=true # use droplet for filter to be used by cgi
my $DEBUG = 1;
my $template = "f9.template";
my ($inText) = @ARGV; #$isDroplet?@ARGV:("something-esp.txt");
Would someone know if there might be a simple change to this code to make it work in OS X? If not, where else might I go to look for an answer?

Answer 1

BflatBlues wrote:
Then there is one called formatter9.pl and one called f9.template. The template is referenced in the formatter9.pl. I go into formatter9.pl and change the month each time before we use it at least 40 or 50 times during the course of a week.
Wait a minute. You are editing the script 40 or 50 times each week? Instead of worrying about making it drag and drop, change the code to accept a month as a parameter. Then just run it from the terminal with two parameters. Then use Automator to make it drag and drop and prompt the user for a month to select.