Posted by Martin Mandl - m2m tech support on 02/21/07 08:36

On Feb 20, 4:11 pm, Brad Everman <death...@otaku.freeshell.org> wrote:
> 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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