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Most times you can do this using redirection like this:<br />
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dosapp &lt;&nbsp;keyboardinputfile &gt;&nbsp;output
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Most times you can do this using redirection like this:

dosapp < keyboardinputfile > output

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Does anyone know how to send keystrokes to a CMD windows under Win32 (Windows NT). &nbsp;I need to be able to send keystrokes to a legacy MSDOS application from another Win32 application, and I also need to be able to examine the screen buffer output from the DOS App.<br />
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The Dos app does direct writes to the screen.<br />
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Thanks.<br />

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Does anyone know how to send keystrokes to a CMD windows under Win32 (Windows NT).  I need to be able to send keystrokes to a legacy MSDOS application from another Win32 application, and I also need to be able to examine the screen buffer output from the DOS App.

The Dos app does direct writes to the screen.

Thanks.


Faking Keyboard Input to a CMD window

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