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Input redirection
Name: nad Date: November 20, 2008 at 09:59:44 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: Intel Core2 ; 2 Gb Product: Dell
Comment:
Hello, I want to redirect input from file to an interactive DOS program. With the command program.exe < input.txt, the program opens, but it ignores my input values. The file input.txt contains all the required input values, one per line.
Name: aegis Date: November 20, 2008 at 13:46:55 Pacific
Reply:
Program.exe (whatever that is) has to have been written to recognize the '<', look for the input.txt file, read it and do 'whatever' with the text it finds.
The Operating System is not involved with accomplishing that.
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