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From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard on 31 Mar 2010 13:17
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<p wrap="">Is there any way of getting a handle to the console of a
Command Prompt application? I can get the process ID, because my
Windows program ran the process in the first place, and I have the
window handle. <br>
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<p>Process handle, not window handle.  If you spawned the process in
the first place, then you controlled what console it inherited via the
process creation flags.<br>
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<p>But since this isn't your real problem ...</p>
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<p wrap="">What I'm actually doing is running a Telnet session,
logging it in, running a couple of commands, then leaving it running.<br>
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<p>... you should <a
href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/put-down-the-chocolate-covered-banana.html">put
down the chocolate-covered banana, step away from the European currency
systems</a>, and solve your real problem.  As M. Steinbach mentioned,
you can tell <code>telnet</code> to log-in as a given user via
command-line options.</p>
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From: Matti Vuori on 31 Mar 2010 15:20
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups(a)NTLWorld.COM>
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Please, don't post HTML to newsgroups.
From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard on 1 Apr 2010 18:28
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<p>And at this point in the thread we find a problem statement of <em>another</em>
underlying different real problem:</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>Then you need to read <a
href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/capture-console-win32.html">another
Frequently Given Answer about that</a>.</p>
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From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard on 1 Apr 2010 18:33
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<p>Please, don't post HTML to newsgroups.</p>
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<p>Please learn about Usenet, and about the <em>actual</em>
distinction, between text and <em>binaries</em>, that it has.&nbsp; Then
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From: Phil Hibbs on 2 Apr 2010 05:11
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
> And at this point in the thread we find a problem statement of another
> underlying different real problem:

How is that different from my original post? I want to get a
hConsoleOutput handle, so that I can read the contents directly
instead of stuffing the keys for a Select All command into the
prompt's system menu.

> Then you need to readanother Frequently Given Answer about that.

OK, that's 100% on topic for what I want to do, I do want to
continuously poll the output buffer and I am aware that I might miss
something if it scrolls out of the buffer before I poll it. There
isn't really an answer in there, though, just a general warning that
the approach is problematic. I know that, but it's the only approach
that can achieve what I want, so I'll have to either live with the
problems or stick with the Alt-Space key-stuffing approach which has
its own problems.

Phil Hibbs.
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