Hi Mike, thanks for your patience. I'm sorry if my wording was confusing - English is not my mother tongue. It appears the following problem is equivalent to mine, but simpler to describe because it neither involves pipes nor echo: Say I have a DOS program that shows kind of a splash screen which can be bypassed by hitting ESC. (This is just an example.) I'd like to automate this, so I start dosemu like dosemu -input 'thedosapp.exe\r\^[' because in the readme[1] I'm told that "\^[" is the syntax for the escape key. At least that's how I interpret the "\^x" section. Unfortunately, this doesn't work. So what's the syntax for the escape key? I tried to find hints in the source code, but my C know-how is pretty basic. All I figured out is that the uhook_keystroke() function in dosemu/src/base/misc/userhook.c must be the function that handles the keystroke command. 2010/3/8 Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > TW wrote: > > Oh, I forgot how to pipe a single space character > > echo -n " " > dospipe > I sorted at least this one out, it can be achieved like echo "\ \ " > dospipe Thomas W. [1] http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/docs/README/1.4/x724.html#AEN748 [2] http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/docs/README-tech/0.98/README-tech-2.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
