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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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