Aucbvax.5725
fa.info-vax
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax
Tue Jan 12 15:42:25 1982
Switching input streams
>From TLD@MIT-MC Wed Jan  6 20:11:53 1982
I'm trying to switch input streams to a user program running under
VAX/VMS and can't make it work.  Perhaps someone out there can help me
or tell me why it can't be done?

What I want to do is to call a user program (to which I do not have
access to the source) from a COM file, pass it some data from the
file, switch the input to the terminal until the user program quits,
and then get back to the COM file.  I tried using $ DECK ... $ EOD,
which passed the data from the com file correctly but then went back
to system command level.  Elimination of the $ EOD caused the user
program to receive strange input from somewhere which eventually
caused it to blow up.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

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