> I'm not sure, but probably a program can distinguish whether it's in
> "interactive mode" or used for batch processing? It seems like this should be
> possible, but I don't think it is. I've tried doing something similar
> (though not quite the same), where I tried to automatically detect whether my
> program was being run from the command-line or being "called" (via the DOS
> EXEC function) from another program. I could never figure out a way to
> automatically detect this. The closest I could come was figuring out the
> name of the "parent" program and compare it to a list of known command-line
> interpreters (from MS, FreeDOS, 4DOS, etc.). I abandoned the idea since it
> was pretty unreliable. If there are some keystrokes you ALWAYS want to "type"
> at the beginning of a particular program, you should start the program with a
> batch file and use a "keyboard stuffing" utility (there are several of those
> available, including my SCANCODE program). However, you should be able to
> tell whether your input is coming from the keyboard or being redirected from
> a file (which I believe is what is being meant by "batch processing"). With
> some of my programs, I do something similar with the output. These programs
> have an "automatic pause" feature that stops when the screen gets full
> (similar to piping the output of the program to MORE). However, if the
> program detects that the output has been redirected to something other than
> STDOUT (the screen), the auto-pause is disabled so the entire output is
> redirected with no pauses.
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