dealing with configure script that asks questions

[Dieter Baron <dillo%danbala.tuwien.ac.at@localhost>]

hi,

I came across a configure script that asks questions and reads answers
from stdin.  What is the recommended way to automate this, read the
answers from a file instead?  I'll have to do variable substition in
this file, as one of the questions is for the value of LOCALBASE.

                                        thanks,
                                        dillo