Re: [Expectperl-discuss] Using perl and Expect.pm with minicom

[Austin S. <te...@of...>]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:35:50AM -0800, Patrick B. wrote:
> 
> This is my first post in this forum.
> 
> I am trying to automate the setup of a network device from scratch through a
> serial connection using a combination of minicom and perl.  I initially
> tried using minicom's built-in runscript program to do the configuration,
> but found that it didn't allow me to do some things I wanted to (like
> opening config files and piping their contents to STDIN), so I changed
> minicom's setup to use perl instead.  
> 
> Now my problem is how to use Expect.pm.  Minicomm's documentation states
> "Stdin and stdout are connected to the modem, stderr to the screen"
> 
	I would use something a little more basic than minicomm for this. Try
using 'cu' instead (typically part of the uucp package).

	Austin