Conference turris::digital_unix

9167.0. "piping in values to a c program" by WRLDYD::BOURQUE () Thu Mar 13 1997 13:14

Hello,

    I am running a c program from a korn shell script and want the
    c program to accept input from the next couple of lines in the
    script.

    Here is the example

    program.c << end
    answer1
    answer2
    ...
    end
    then continue with script.

    The type of logic works fine for korn shell commands and sql commands.
    But I am not having any luck using this logic with a c program.

    The C program prompts for the first answer and just sits there.

    I run the script as follows.

    sript a.ksh > a.log

    when I run the script, the c program eventually times out and exits.

    Any suggestions would be helpfull.

Thanks

Ray Bourque

Is your C program doing anything strange with stdin?  Does it do what
you expect if you type the answers at it?


	-- Farrell

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