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From: jal@acc (John Lauro)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: information on how to pipe stuff into command.com
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Date: 9 Nov 90 03:50:31 GMT
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In article <90374@elsie.nci.nih.gov> ado@elsie.nci.nih.gov (Arthur David Olson) writes:
>If, on a true-blue IBM PC-AT running DOS 3.3, I type in the commands
>	echo dir > input
>	more < input | command
>the system produces the requested directory listing, but then locks up.
>If you know a way of avoiding the lockup, I'd appreciate hearing from you
>by electronic mail.
>
If you are writing the program that generates the commands, the
following should be a reasonable work around:
   put an exit at the end.
echo dir >input
echo exit >>input
type input | command

Note: You wouldn't want to use more anyways incase you had a screen
full...

   - John_Lauro@ub.cc.umich.edu