[ILUG] [OT] Windows scripting, ala expect.

[Griffin, Gearoid]

And if you want to simulate Unix perl scripts running under NT/98 why dont
you use  Uwin (Unix for Windows) from ATT research..
http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/
Cheers
Gearoid
-----Original Message-----
From: Fergal Daly [mailto:fergal at esatclear.ie]
Sent: 15 May 2000 23:02
To: Donncha O Caoimh; ILUG
Subject: Re: [ILUG] [OT] Windows scripting, ala expect.


At 14:58 15/05/00, Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
>Slightly off-topic but bothersome nonetheless.
>I have some perl scripts on a Linux box that would benefit from being
>run by Windows users because they wouldn't need to bother me
>continuosly...
>Has anyone managed to script a telnet session in Windows? All I need is
>for a mouse click to open a telnet session to the remote box, login and
>run the script and exit again.
>
>It's out of the question putting Perl on those machines, they're only
>Win98 boxes after all!

I don't understand that last remark, a program I wrote (approx 20,000 lines 
+ GUI) and is running on of plenty of 95, 98 and NT boxes some of them are 
things like P166s. Activestate do a nice windows perl package 
(www.activestate.com) which you can even install it to a shared drive and 
it works happily.

If you want code for wrapping a perl script in a simple (cross-platform) 
GUI, I can supply,

Fergal