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language, tool A Unix tool written in Tcl and a scriptlanguage for automating the operation of interactive

applications such as telnet, FTP, passwd, fsck,

rlogin, tip, etc.. Expect can feed input to other

programs and perform pattern matching on their output. It

is also useful for testing these applications. By adding

Tk, you can also wrap interactive applications in X11

["expect: Scripts for Controlling Interactive Tasks", Don

Libes, Comp Sys 4(2), U Cal Press Journals, Nov 1991].

(1997-06-09)

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