Micro$oft

Hi all, First post to the forum! Hope I don't annoy too many people This may be simple may be not - I'm a linux guy, so this is unchartered territory to me. I'm keen on setting up a service on my Windows box - this'll allow me to input data one end, use the proprietary program to do its stuff, and then get the data out the other end. It's basically because I need to be able to convert from one format to the other without all the pointey clickey stuff. Simple services are fine - it's not much different from a UNIX point of view, but to actually get the program to *do* anything's another matter. My main stumbling block is therefore the following: The application I need to use requires user input. How can I make the process completely automated so that I can have what is essentially a wrapper doing the work of entering the data according to user input from another data system? It's a .jsp based box controlling the windows VM - so whatever you call it, it's an ugly hybrid of a kind! Kind regards, Ronald.