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The FORCE program is designed to force a string of text to another job in the system. It seems to work fine with VTCOM and the RTFTP program, but it can't be guaranteed to work with all programs which do terminal input.

Again, if you have any difficulties, send me mail describing the situation and I'll examine it.

Usage:

In order to force a string of text to a system or foreground job, do the following:

(assuming target program is already loaded and running) .RUN FORCE FORCE>job_name:text

forces 'text' to job 'job_name', where 'job_name' is either the program name or the name specified with the /NAME:job_name option to {F|S}RUN.

Note: alternatively, you could place FORCE.SAV on your system volume and issue the command:

.FORCE job_name:text

Notes:

Assembly requires the SYSTEM.MLB macro library which only became available with later versions of RT-11.