Running DOS App on win32 via python over ssh

[James Stroud]

Peter Hansen wrote:
> James Stroud wrote:
> 
>> I am helping someone write a python script to run their DOS 
>> application through an SSH terminal. It seems that this program wants 
>> to access a DOS shell and send output there. If running remotely, this 
>> causes a problem because it locks up the program. The program seems 
>> (to me) to be looking for some non-existant DOS shell to send its 
>> output to. How might I emulate this shell (or whatever it is) with 
>> python? I have tried several flavors of python (Enthought, 
>> ActiveState, etc.). I have tried win32pipe.popen[1-4], and many other 
>> things that I can't even remember now. 
> 
> 
> What makes you think there's any DOS "shell" involved?  Many DOS 
> programs didn't write to stdout, but drew directly into screen memory 
> with BIOS calls and such.  Are you sure this is a more generic command 
> line program that just writes to "stdout" or the console?
> 
> -Peter
> 

I honestly have no idea what this program is trying to do or whether a 
DOS shell is involved. I'm just assuming based on the behavior. The 
behavior is that if I start x-windows from the main cygwin terminal, and 
then I run the program from xterm in x-windows, the output goes to the 
main cygwin terminal from which I started x-windows. The output does not 
go to the x-terminal. I assume that this bizarre behavior has something 
to do with the fact that it freezes when running over SSH.

Also, FWIW, I believe the program was written in pascal and compiled 
with turbo-pascal. The source is not available, though.

This is yet another reason why all thing microsoft suck!

James