[fpc-pascal] Interactive SHELL?

[Marco van de Voort]

> What I need to do is to shell out to another program [GNUpg] and allow the user to
> interact with it (enter a pass phrase).

> I have tried all the  FpExec routines, the Shell routines.... etc. They ALL execute gpg
> correctly, with the proper command-line args, I see gpg's response on the console screen,
> and it's request for a pass phrase, but, the user can NOT interact with it as the keyboard
> is dead.
> 
> Now, this is understandable, since it is the main program which issued the shell command,
> and any input would have to come from the entity opening the shell (the parent program,
> not the console user).
> 
> Is there a way to re-direct the local console kybd to the new shell, allowing the user to
> interact with gpg? Or is there another way to do this? Perhaps shelling out is not the
> proper way to handle this?
> 
> The program is being compiled for Linux, with FPC 2.0.0

Do you use units or libraries that might put the terminal in raw mode?
Ncurses,crt, video?