Hi, Ok, I have found this MacPerl thing, which seems to be pretty much like Perl, except that you can run it on macintoshes pre OSX.
Then I can write up the perl script, and point to it from this CronoTask software, or whatever its called.
I think you are right though. I think you can kind of get some class of a command line interface with AppleScript. Although, its abviously going to be poor in comparison to the BSD UNIX interface that OSX offers now. Very clever move by Apple that one.
Take it easy.
Philip