Sending keystrokes to DOS program

[philrosenberg]

I'm writing a program that needs to run a number of DOS programs and send keyboard input to them.
I'm currently using CreateProcess() to open the applications and keybd_event() to generate the input. However this seems a very inelegant way to do this, especially as it seems that the application I want to receive the keystrokes has to have the focus. Is there any better way to send the keyboard input, perhaps generating a WM_KEYDOWN message using PostThreadMessage()?

Thanks for any help

Phil

 

[Salem]

You could try this

FILE *fp = _popen( "mydosprog.exe", "w" );
fprintf( fp, "A_Command\n" );
_pclose( fp );

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