Re: [Tutor] Responding to a request for input from a MS-DOS program

2006-10-12 Thread Jeffrey Kennedy
Hi Alan, I think I might be trying to walk before I can crawl; for benefits of other newbies, I'll summarise lessons learned so far. Firstly, I spent ages trying to find out why the Python documentation syntax for Popen, using stdin=PIPE, didn't work: Traceback (most recent call last): File ""

[Tutor] Responding to a request for input from a MS-DOS program

2006-10-11 Thread Jeffrey Kennedy
Title: Responding to a request for input from a MS-DOS program Hi, I want to use Python to run an old MS-DOS program that doesn't accept arguments when launched. I have to open the program first, then it will ask me for the name of another program (which it will subsequently do some analysis