"Scanner"-script for whole library on W2K - need help

[DominikHerz]

We need to scan a whole library (81 slots) with the scanner-command. Since this takes a really very long time on 8mm-tapes we want to write a script that automizes all the load- and unload-processes and scans in the actual tape between. The real problem is that &quot;scanner&quot; asks for the next tape or (q)uit after reading in one tape. How can I automize this manual keyboard entry &quot;<q> <enter>&quot; in a commandline script on windows (2k)? Following up i will show you how far we are yet:

1. Batchfile &quot;jb_scan.bat&quot;
for /l %%C in (1,1,81) do scan.bat %%C

2. Batchfile &quot;scan.bat&quot;
nsrjb -l -n -f \\.\Tape0 -S %1
scanner -i -q \\.\Tape0 < q-parse.dat
nsrjb -u -f \\.\Tape0

3. Parsing file &quot;q-parse.dat&quot;
# The only entry is the &quot;q&quot;
q

Yesterday we let this script run but the &quot;q&quot; was not used after scanning. I suppose it was something with the name of the parsing-file (the &quot;-&quot; was not correctly interpreted). We renamed the file to &quot;q_parse.dat&quot; and now the next process is running. If this should fail too, please, does anyone have an idea about that?

Greetz, Dominik