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- From: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com
- Subject: Re: REXX question
- Note: This contains the views of the appender, not IBM Corporation.
- Sender: @watson.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <1992Aug24.011858.22595@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 01:18:58 GMT
- Organization: Federal System Company, IBM Corporation
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- In <MONTY.92Aug21122301@blackhole.lerc.nasa.gov> monty@blackhole.lerc.nasa.gov (Monty Andro) writes:
- >
- > Hello,
- >
- > I'm rather new to using REXX and can't seem to find what I need in the
- > online documentation. I would like to start an application from REXX
- > and be able to send it characters as if they came from the keyboard.
- > Is this possible with REXX ? Normally a program after it has started
- > waits for keyboard or mouse input. I want to simulate this keyboard
- > I/O from REXX. Any suggestions or hints on the feasibility of my need
- > would be greatly appreciated.
- >
- > Monty
- >
-
- Well, if the program is truly reading from standard in, and not directly from
- the keyboard, you could use lineout() to write the data to a file, and then
- use :
- TYPE keyinput | pgm
- wher pgm is the program you want to run.
-
- Unfortunately, REXX/2 does not have the capability to push data onto it's
- queue and have it show up in the next program's input stream (like it can
- in CMS REXX).
-
- Cliff
-