On Thursday 19 July 2007 10:48, Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have to use an archaic, menu-driven C program that requires keyboard
> input to process commands (all of these commands are terminated by a
> newline)
>
> I was wondering if there was any way I could use the program within a
> script so that I could have the script "feed" in the sequence of
> keystrokes/string-inputs that I must otherwise type in manually?
>
> As ever, all help/advice is appreciated.

Have you seen Perl's expect module?

>
> Thanks,
>
> -K
>
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Thanks,

Eric
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