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The Question is:
I am writing a dcl program and need to emulate hitting the enter key. How can I
accomplish this? Thanks in advance for your help!
The Answer is :
Typical DCL-based (display) I/O operations are from the OpenVMS host out
to the DECterm, terminal, terminal emulator, and not from said device
back to the host -- the ENTER key sequence (or potentially the carriage
return character, depending on how the keypad is configured) is sent
from the terminal to the OpenVMS host.
Scripting an existing application that requires screen-based or other
interactive input usually involves a tool such as DEC Test Manager or a
mechanism such as a pseudo-terminal. (Tools that read from sys$input
can be easily incorporated into and invoked from within a DCL command
procedure, but as you indicate ENTER is required, this is unlikely such
a tool.)
As there is unfortunately no provided information on the specific local
application requirements, no more specific answer is possible.
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