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From: J_SCHULL%HVRFORD.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Turbo Pascal challenge: a program-running-program.
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Date: 18 Oct 89 23:18:16 GMT
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Not for the first time, I wish I had a program that would feed
keystrokes to another program (like SuperKey, but not memory
resident).  This would allow us to make a simple program which
could be run from DOS, which would in turn send a stereotyped
keystroke sequence to another (awkwardly "user-obsequieous")
program.


I imagine that you would just need to (somehow) put the
keystrokes into the keyboard buffer, and then EXEC the driven
program.  But I can't figure out how.  Can you?

Example:

  if the program were called RUN and you wanted it to run
  UGLYMENU, and choose menu items 2, 4, 6, and 9 in that order
  (9 terminates program UGLYMENU).  You might type

  A:>RUN UGLYMENU 2469

  from DOS, and UGLYMENU would think someone was typing "2469"
  and then terminate.  RUN would also terminate.  (The program
  would be useful in more complicated circumstances, but if I had
  the code for the example, I'd know how to proceed).