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[Tharr]

I'm trying to use a computer to turn on my tekkit classic force-field. I want to be able to input activate to turn it on and have it stay on. and later input a diffrent passcode to deactivate it. Any tips or suggestions would be very welcomed and apreciated. Also i need it to automaticly run on startup if possable. Many thanks in advance, I hope to one day concour this Lua beast.

[CometWolf]

Im assuming you can use redstone to controll it, so just use the redstone API for that.
to read user input you can use read()

redstone.setOutput("back",false)
while true do
  local input = read()
  if input == "activate" then
    redstone.setOutput("back",true)
  elseif input == "deactivate" then
    redstone.setOutput("back",false)
  end
end

To run it on startup, just name the program "startup".