How to accept a carriage return in a Batch Script

[chieh]

Hi:

My friend is working in a firm that uses software written in Fortran 77. He is trying to run a batch script to automate file download on a nightly basis. However the script always stopped and prompt user to hit enter key, i.e. the file dialog shows up waiting for user to hit ok to save the file to the given name and directory. How can he automate this part? Here is the script
:

Batch Script:
=============

! Automatically download fx files to PC
BATCH
PRINT
TXFILE2
PCV FIL H:\
STOP

===============

Thank you.

Chieh.

 

[zeitghost]

How about trying a redirect on STDIN?

I used to do that quite often.

You create a text file with the reply in it and redirect STDIN to read the text file.

YOURPROGRAM < TEXTFILE.TXT

is the sort of thing I'm talking about.

This assumes you're using a PC.

 

[chieh]

Hi Zei:

I don't think it will work, they are using a PC but they have to login into a terminal program and run the script.

Chieh.

 

[zeitghost]

Oh well, it was just a thought!

rgds
Zeit.

 

[xwb]

Look up "sendkeys appactivate" in VBScript.