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From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard on 6 Apr 2010 20:16
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<p>And at this point in the thread we find a problem statement of
another underlying different real problem:</p>
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<p>How is that different from my original post? </p>
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<p>Come now!&nbsp; Surely even you yourself can spot the difference between</p>
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<p>Now, I am trying to make this into a generic Command Prompt
automation suite, so I can quickly throw together scripts that send
commands to a Command Prompt and interrogate the screen, not limited to
STDIO either, I want this to work with screen-drawing applicatons,
eventually I want to write a Nethack bot with it.</p>
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<p>and</p>
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<p>Is there any way of getting a handle to the console of a
Command Prompt application?&nbsp; I can get the process ID, because my
Windows program ran the process in the first place, and I have the
window handle. </p>
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<p>and even</p>
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<p>What I'm actually doing is running a Telnet session,
logging it in, running a couple of commands, then leaving it running.</p>
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<p>.</p>
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<blockquote type="cite">Then you need to read <a
href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/capture-console-win32.html">another
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Given Answer about that</a>.</blockquote>
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There isn't really an answer in there, though, just a general warning
that the approach is problematic.</p>
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<p>That is an answer.&nbsp; That it involves your putting down the
chocolate-covered banana and stepping away from the European currency
systems is the true problem, here.&nbsp; <br>
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