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Lee D.Rothstein wrote:

> Is there a way to redirect console input /to/ (actually /from/ ;-) ) a
> file, for say a Vista
> console (CLI) command like 'sc'?

=46rom a recent post 'ttyfier' is probably the answer, the post is:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2006-03/msg00164.html

which has a link to the source code.

> I've tried:
>=20
>    sc <Ys.in >sc.help.txt

There is a tool in coreutils called yes, it outputs a stream of 'yes',
so usually (but not with windows console programs) one would do 'yes |
program &> log.txt'

> Where 'Ys.in' is a file containing a bunch of 'Y's, which is what 'sc'
> is waiting for.
> 'sc' ignores the file and waits for me to type 'Y', before it
> resumes the help output to stdout.
[snip]
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Ren=E9 Berber


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