Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Interacting with DOS Shell

[Robert S. <rs...@em...>]

maybe some sort of IPC, like pipes? (i haven't played with it myself,
but that sounds like what you need...)

-rob




Sean Healy wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to make a gui interface to a command-line program I have.  The
> problem is that at certain points, the program wants user input.  I tried
> backticks, but my script hangs at the point where the program wants input.
> Is there a way to interface with DOS so that when a DOS program wants input,
> the control switches back to the Perl script, which can ask for input and
> then pipe that input into DOS?
> 
> Backticks, exec(), and system() all fail to allow for user input after the
> initial command.  Is there a module or something I can use for this?
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