From: David Golden (david.golden at domain oceanfree.net)
Date: Thu 28 Jun 2001 - 15:04:32 IST
Stephen_Reilly at domain dell.com wrote:
> ah wow, would you look at that. Still on my little voyage of
>discovery here I give you "expect" and "autoexpect". Handy little linux
>utilities. You launch any program with autoexpect and perform some task.
>Your entire interaction with said program is recorded and scripted for
>"expect". You run the script and it repeats the whole interaction. Use it to
>schedule fsck, dialups, pine etc.
>
The other fun thing is that expect, being a TCL extension, integerates
well with Tk - so it's extremely easy to wrap arbitary command line
stuff in a pointy-clicky GUI with it. See "expectk"
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