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Old 09-23-2008
Thanks for your reply!

That would work excellently if the application doing the imaging was open source or my own application, problem is it is proprietary closed source.

Thus, I need to run it in the background and read its output to know when to prompt for a new cd, and then send input, keystrokes more specifically, to the program to tell it to continue.

Unless anyone has a better idea Smilie

Edit: In clarification:

I have been able to use mkfifo to redirect output to another shells input, for example. One thing I am unable to do however is sending a simple ENTER key-stroke.

Perhaps I am using the wrong tools to write to the input? I am using echo so far, searching for other methods...

Last edited by andreas.ericson; 09-24-2008 at 04:12 AM..
 

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