About:
Expect is a tool for automating interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect really makes this stuff trivial. Expect is also useful for testing these same applications. And by adding Tk, you can also wrap interactive applications in X11 GUIs. Expect can make easy all sorts of tasks that are prohibitively difficult with anything else. You will find that Expect is an absolutely invaluable tool - using it, you will be able to automate tasks that you've never even thought of before - and you'll be able to do this automation quickly and easily.

Author:
Don Libes [contact developer]

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8.38/10.00 (1 vote)

Homepage:
http://expect.nist.gov/
Tar/GZ:
http://expect.nist.gov/expect.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://expect.nist.gov/HISTORY

Trove categories: [change]

[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		Public Domain
[Topic]		Software Development

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	5.43.0	05-May-2006	Public Domain

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
5.43.0	Minor bugfixes	05-May-2006 07:16
5.39.0	N/A	10-Sep-2003 23:58
5.38	Minor bugfixes	06-Apr-2003 05:08
5.30.1	N/A	21-Sep-1999 23:24

 Comments

[»] expect
by plp - Apr 15th 2000 15:19:08

I have just noticed that expect does not want to compile with tcl8.0.5. Its configure script expects tcl8.2.? at least. Additionally the scriptics.com is down now, and there are no mirrors anywhere to be found ?!

The sources fail to compile on a number of symbols that (should ?) be defined in the tcl*/generic/tclPort.h file. There is also no previous (older) copy of expect sources anywhere to be found on the web (i.e. one that compiles with tcl8.0.5).

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