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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!olivea!inews.intel.com!mwilley From: mwilley@pcocd2.intel.com (Mark Willey - PCD) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: "expect" for FreeBSD Date: 27 Apr 1994 20:44:29 GMT Organization: Intel Corporation Lines: 25 Sender: mwilley@pcocd2 (Mark Willey - PCD) Distribution: world Message-ID: <2pmird$kk9@inews.intel.com> References: <Cos10D.61L@mv.mv.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: fiw206.fm.intel.com Originator: mwilley@sedona In article <Cos10D.61L@mv.mv.com>, shaman@mv.mv.com (Coranth Gryphon) writes: > Hi. I am looking for a simple program to do the login > negotiations for auto-starting slip on machine-boot. > > I have heard of a program called "expect" which > works kinda like the uucp chat script parser: ie, > it takes a sequence of receive-send strings and attempts > to carry on a startup conversation. > > Does anyone know of this, and if there is a port to FreeBSD? Expect is an extension to tcl. (read comp.lang.tcl for more info) You can find the sources to tcl/tk and Expect at harbor.ecn.purdue.edu. I compiled tcl and tk with no problem on my NetBSD 0.9 system, so you should be able to get Expect working with no problem. Let me know how it works out. Mark -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Willey Ask me about FREE UNIX+X11R5 for Intel PC. 916-356-5477 I speak for myself, not Intel. mwilley@pcocd2.intel.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------