[Coco] OS/9 Command to gain keyboard control from script

Cocodemus retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 1 01:07:40 EDT 2015


No, its when you call a program from a script, it takes the input from the script itself, i want to get input from keyboard itself something like

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Also how to create another window and switch to that from the script? I remember a display sequence for that

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> On Mar 31, 2015, at 9:42 PM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
> 
> Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
>> Hi I forgot the display command used to get the control when calling an
>> application from an os-9 script.
>> 
>> can't find it in the documentation though!
>> 
>> thanks,
>> 
>> Luis Felipe Antoniosi
> 
> Louis,
> 
> I have no idea what information you are trying to ask about. The best I can do is guess that you mean how can a script get typed in information.
> 
> Well there is no command built into OS-9 as such. There is a command (probably written by Boisy) called "prompt" which echos a message and waits for a key-press.
> Shellplus permits the use of variables which could be obtained with 'prompt' or a variation of that command. Those variables could then be used in a script.
> 
> Would you describe what you want in more detail?
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
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