OK here are the specifics - The DOS window that I am launching is cygwin. I work for a satellite communications company and I use Labview to test our modems firmware before release. A test that I perform is a program that our s/w developers wrote that passes udp traffic. It is written in Linux, which is our O/S on our modems, so I use cygwin to run the traffic program. So what I am trying to do is to start cygwin using system exec, send a command to start the test via the cygwin window, and monitor the traffic in another cygwin window on the receiving end. I know I can launch the cywin window and then use the simulate keyboard VI to send the commands. I just wanted to know if there was an easier way. Also on the receive side how do I monitor what is being displayed in the cywin window there? I can also accomplish what I want to do using the Putty program.
So what I have found by looking around is I can open my cygwin window, send the commands to it using the windows scripting host invoke node and execute the test. Now the other half of the problem is how do I monitor what is being received in that window. In other words I have data that is being continuously updated in the receiver window that I have to monitor. Any ideas...?