Scripting a Command Prompt Application

[nlosc]

I have a dos application that requires user interaction through an application specific command prompt after execution. I would like to "script" this application and the subsequent command line commands for the application.
I have heard perl or a batch file may help and I have read alot about them in the last few days. I know how to execute operating system commands in perl and batch. This will get the application started in a shell. But how do I issue the commands that go in the command for the application?

 

[richay]

Build a text file with the answers to the applications prompts, one answer per line. Then when you start the application, redirect the input stream to the file like this:

c:\> aplication.exe <answers.txt

Richard Ay
COADE, Inc.

 

[nlosc]

Thanks!!!

That worked like a charm.

And just think, the developer of the application was going to charge us $2,000 to make the application "scriptable".

I didn't even realize the win 2k redirection was so similar to UNIX.

 

[IRstuff]

Most of that functionality has been there since before Windows.

TTFN

 

[richay]

As the old saying goes, "DOS is Boss".



Richard Ay
COADE, Inc.

 

[IRstuff]

I was thinking CPM, actually; having never owned or used a UNIX machine ;-)

TTFN