Control actions of DOS in perl

[rajendra]

Hello All,

I would like to know is it possible to execute control operations like
Ctrl-C(to abort an action), Ctrl-Q(to mark an email as read) etc in a perl
script.

With Rgds,
Raj

[smallpond]

It sounds like you want to stuff characters into the keyboard buffer
and
have them interpreted as though they were typed by the user, like
Sendkeys
in VB.

Win32::GuiTest has a SendKeys interface that may let you do some of
these
things, but I haven't tried it.

If you know what action you want, you can do it another way. You can
use
the kill function to do the equivalent of Ctrl-C for example.

[Robbie Hatley]

"rajendra" wrote:

> I would like to know is it possible to execute control operations like
> Ctrl-C(to abort an action), Ctrl-Q(to mark an email as read) etc in a perl
> script.

Dunno if Perl can do that or not, but when I need to automate stuff in
Windows, I use AutoIt3: http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/
That allows you to write and run scripts that can move and click the
mouse any place you like, depress any keys you want, etc.

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