Can YOU do this with Cygwin??

Sea Sharp

Hello, basically I'm having a bit of trouble trying to figure out how to do something.

I have a programme that I'm using with Cygwin. I want to run it in batch mode, but there seems to be no -b option or any alternative.

I assumed you'd be able to run a programme from a script file, and then the lines after you called the programme would be commands that the programme would open. This is obviously not the case.

So how do I go about writing a script that can open a programme on one line,and give commands to the programme on the following lines?

Snowbat

If the program is interactive but the author did not allow for user input to be passed as options on the command line, you can use an Expect script to talk to it.

syklops

OP, what is the program your trying to use?

That might help us help you a bit more.

Khannie

Sounds like expect is what you're looking for alright.

Sea Sharp

It's a programme called 'Klsyn' used to make the stephen hawkins type voice. Basically the programe generates a wavfile based on user defined commands.

The programme manual has refers to this in the following:

The second argument of this type is the '-c' (control file)
option. This option allows you to run KLSYN non-interactively from
an external file. When specified, KLSYN will look for its input
from the file bearing the name that you give it immediatley
following the option (no spaces should appear between the -c and
the filename). The default extension on this file is '.ctl'. If
no extension is given, KLSYN will look for a file with the basename
that you specified and the '.ctl' extension. If the filename given
already has an extension on it, KLSYN will just leave that filename
and extension alone and look for that file. An example usage of
this option looks like this:

klsyn -cFilename<CR> or klsyn baa -cFilename

In the above example, KLSYN will try to get its input from the file
named Filename.ctl. If the specified file can not be found, an
error message will be printed to the screen and the program will
abort.[NOTE (JH): THIS -c OPTION DOES NOT SEEM TO WORK. I CHECKED THE
SOURCE CODE AND THERE DOES NOT SEEM TO BE ANYTHING THERE THAT
LOOKS FOR THIS OPTION.KLSYN CAN BE RUN IN BATCH MODE, THOUGH. SEE
THE examples directory -- 'syndaga.bat' and 'daga01.cmd'-'daga10.cmd')

Basically, with KLsyn there are two ways of defining parameters. You can define a parameter table in a text file, or you can manually enter values from the command line.

The way, that reads parameters from a file, for some reason does not seem to be working correctly. i.e if i have 4 variable varying it works ok. If 20 variables are varying the programme crashes.

However, you can also define parameters from the command line. When I define variables in this manner, it works ok. The problem is, in order to sucsessfully define all of the 40 parameters, a script file about 4 a4 pages is needed.

I could easily generate this script file from other functions. The question is, how do I write a script that opens a programme and then enters commands within that opened programme.

Thanks for replys lads.