Interactive TextPad Window for Tools

[rgoldhor]

I'm using Perl and would like to be able to run Perl scripts that accept input and produce output. I'd like that input and output to come from and o to a TextPad window. The output part works fine aready, of course, but I can't figure out any way to send input--interactively--to my Perl script.

I've seen comments by other users who have the same problem. Could some authoritative person comment on whether this is a feasible option, or explain why we should be doing this some other way? A comment on this situation in the documentation would be great--it must be avery common desire by people writing scripts--Perl, Java, or whatever.