DOS Frontend

[Brad Everman]

Suppose I have an old interactive DOS program that I want to control via
the web. Is it possible to create a PHP program that not only starts the
program, but allows keyboard input and displays the output of the DOS
program interactively? If PHP can't do this, any other suggestions?

Thanks.

[lister]

Re: DOS Frontend

On Feb 20, 3:11 pm, Brad Everman <death...@otaku .freeshell.orgw rote:

Suppose I have an old interactive DOS program that I want to control via
the web. Is it possible to create a PHP program that not only starts the
program, but allows keyboard input and displays the output of the DOS
program interactively? If PHP can't do this, any other suggestions?
>
Thanks.

Is the DOS program text based or graphic based?
If text (which I presume), it is full screen interaction, or does it
just spit out text messages in response to being run with various
command line params?

[Martin Mandl - m2m tech support]

Re: DOS Frontend

On Feb 20, 4:11 pm, Brad Everman <death...@otaku .freeshell.orgw rote:

Suppose I have an old interactive DOS program that I want to control via
the web. Is it possible to create a PHP program that not only starts the
program, but allows keyboard input and displays the output of the DOS
program interactively? If PHP can't do this, any other suggestions?
>
Thanks.

Dear Brad,

have a look at popen() et al

http://at.php.net/manual/en/function.popen.php

This might help you communicate interactively with your DOS programm.

Good luck
Martin


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