send function keys to a legacy DOS program

[John Nagle]

On 3/10/2011 4:58 PM, Justin Ezequiel wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> We have an old barcode program (MSDOS and source code unavailable.)
> I've figured out how to populate the fields (by hacking into one of
> the program's resource files.)
> However, we still need to hit the following function keys in sequence.
> F5, F2, F7
> Is there a way to pipe said keys into the program?
>
> I know it's not really a python problem but I got nowhere else to go.
> I've tried other barcode solutions but none give the same output.

    Look into DOSbox.

	http://www.dosbox.com

It's an open-source software emulator for an x86 machine running DOS.
So you can go into the emulator and connect to the "keyboard" or
"screen" from another program.

					John Nagle