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From: catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Redirecting keyboard input to a disk file
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Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 17:42:45 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  7 17:42:45 1987
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Reply-To: catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP (Tony Catone)
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Keywords: keyboard disk input

In article <22@chasefrs.UUCP> djs@chasefrs.UUCP (David Snyder) writes:
>Recently a program to redirect printer output to a disk file. 
>I wondered is there a way (a program would be best) which redirects keyboard
>i/o from the keyboard to a file. This would enable me to run a program that
>uses the keyboard using a stored sequence of events, and then save the printed
>output in a disk. I could then have a dbase program look through a database
>and run a program through a set senario on data it found in the database,
>store the data on a disk file, read in the values and place them in the database.
>David Snyder

Standard DOS i/o redirection will work if your program reads it's
keystrokes through DOS.  Unfortunately, many application programs
bipass DOS, going to the BIOS or even to int 9h.  A while back,
I briefly used a shareware program called Extended Batch Language,
which among other things did what you want.  It was nice, but as
I had no real use for it, I gave it up.  You should be able to
find it on various user groups PD disks; if not, let me know.  I
can probably scare up a copy from Penn's Computer Resource Center
(one of the few things they do well is keep up to date in PD 
software).

					- Tony
					  catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu
					  catone@wharton.upenn.edu