Windows Batch-File to execute and communicate with running program

Monday, March 30, 2015

(How) can a program with interactive command line mode (shell) be programmatically "interacted" with from CMD.exe via batch file (.bat)?
Example:

>program.exe
>>aCommand
>>someResponse
>>anotherCommand
>>someotherResponse
>>quit
>

The batch file should start program.exe, send aCommand, then [optionally] wait for someResponse and so on.

There's How to interact with command-line program using batch file? but does not need automated interaction and so accepts CALL as answer.

Maybe it's possible to start the process separately and then pipe commands and responses to communicate with it?

Elsewhere:

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