Hi John,
I had this problem when running Norton Ghost, it asked a question at
startup that needed the sequence <Tab><Tab><Enter> before proceeding
with the command line options. The available DosEmu options didn't work,
so I wrote a kernel module that simulated key presses. This was for a
2.4 kernel and a hack, I'm no kernel hacker.
In my case Ghost was running in a console on the front display. To get
an idea of Ghosts progress, I found the memory at 0xA0000 showed a
cross-section of the 4 colour screen. It looked like it was interlaced,
though I couldn't figure out how. For my purposes it was enough to save
the screen. It is possible the text version is also available in a
constant memory location.
The details of the kernel module and screen grab are here, in section 5:
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~greg/ghost4linux/index.html
Richard
John Coppens wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:21:55 -0300
"Alain M." <alainm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
BUT, you did not say if your application is command line, TUI or
graphic...
Hella Alain.
The program is TUI - direct video access, so, I don't know if any dumb
mode would be possible. From a few disassembly intents, I suspect it was
written in Turbo Pascal o C.
I have no need to do ssh. The program must be run every hour, a number
of commands typed in, and a value, shown on the screen, must be captured.
I've also tried to write a TSR at some point, and with some success, and
maybe I should continue on that path, as I can then probably look
directly at the memory where the result appears.
But, if possible, I'd rather find a more elegant way...
Thanks,
John
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