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In article <1992Jul23.152903.1601@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>, perry@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu writes:
> The program (a .EXE) is menu driven giving you options, then more menus
> with more options.  To go one back (pop up one menu, or exit), you hit the
> CTRL-Z key.  I cannot find the magic to make ctrl-z as important as it is
> when in interactive mode.
> 
> You think ^Z is the same in either, right?  So did I.  But then explain why
> the F10 key is the same as ^Z, when they are completely different keys (meaning
> they send different sequences back to the vax) BTW- neither CTRL-Z or F10
> seems to mean  EXIT in batch.

  No, a ^Z from a terminal is translated to End Of File and that info is re-
turned to the application. If your VMS terminal type is set to one the models
that has an F10 key, the terminal driver maps F10 to EOF (note - not to ^Z).

  There isn't an easy way to supply multiple EOF's to a program via a .COM
file (a single one is easy, you generate it when the next input line in the
.COM file starts with a $).

  You probably want to investigate the PTY (pseudo-terminal) services in re-
cent VMS versions (5.4 and up, I think). This will let you run the program
on a pseudo-terminal, which you can control the input/output for.

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