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- From: perry@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Zen and bad Karma with running an EXE in a .com
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.152903.1601@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 15:29:03 -0500
- Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club
- Lines: 55
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- I thought this would be so easy..
-
- The task:
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- Create a command procedure that will run an EXE in batch that is now being run
- interactively. Easy enough, no full screen- just simple prompts.
-
- The problem:
-
- The program (a .EXE) is menu driven giving you options, then more menus
- with more options. To go one back (pop up one menu, or exit), you hit the
- CTRL-Z key. I cannot find the magic to make ctrl-z as important as it is
- when in interactive mode.
-
- You think ^Z is the same in either, right? So did I. But then explain why
- the F10 key is the same as ^Z, when they are completely different keys (meaning
- they send different sequences back to the vax) BTW- neither CTRL-Z or F10
- seems to mean EXIT in batch.
-
- The point is, the program wants the special input that hitting CTRL-Z or
- F10 in interactive mode sends back to the program. Does anyone have any idea
- how inbed it into a file?
-
- I have tried:
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- 1) putting the ^Z (not carrot Z but he real thing :-)
- 2) putting the F10 Escape sequence
- 3) Ripping my hair out and steadying my aim at the crt!
-
- I'm open to suggestions. Source code for the .EXE is not availiable (3rd
- party product). This simple, 1hour task has become a fiasco! Oh, here's an
- example command file that is built by the command procedure:
-
- $!
- $DMS
- 1
- 3
- 059
- 069
- ^Z
- ^Z
- $exit
-
- where: DMS runs the program, 1 is shop maintenace, 3 is change shop, 059
- is original shop number, 069 is new shop number, ^z [doesn't work] pops you
- to the top menu, and ^z [again doesn't work] exits the program.
-
-
- Any help by you Gurus would be appreciated!
-
- ADV(thanks)ANCE
-
-
- Perry
- perry@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
-