RE: [Expectperl-discuss] Perl, Expect under the Win2k.

[<ab...@en...>]

Roland, the installation went smoothly, but when I tried the programs, =
which work ok on solaris, I've got a problem with telnet connection.
The expect do not go to exp_continue.=20

The spawn of telnet was ok.
after this:

spawn id(4): Does `hello;\r\n'
match:
  pattern #2: -ex `TL1 Agent Copyright'? No.
  pattern #3: -re `\\[\w+(\-(X|Y))?\] '? No.

Closing spawn id(4).

The timeout was 30 sec., but it is getting out of expect loop =
ommediately.

Any ideas?

How would you suggest and if anybody used the Expect with the =
Net::Telnet module?

-----Original Message-----
From: Roland Giersig [mailto:RGI...@cp...]
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 5:38 PM
To: Alexander Bourov
Cc: exp...@li...
Subject: Re: [Expectperl-discuss] Perl, Expect under the Win2k.


ab...@en... wrote:

> If anybody using Perl & Expect.pm under the Win2k, could you please =
give me recommendations on:
> 1. Which Perl to install :   Active Perl, CygWin .....
> 2. Any specifics on Expect.pm for Win2k?


Expect (more specific: IO-Tty) uses pseudo-terminals, which are only=20
available under CygWin, so that should answer the first question.

Apart from that, no, there are no specifics for Win2k that I know of,=20
simply because there is only marginal reason to use Expect on Windows.=20
You see, apart from telnet (try Net::Telnet instead) there are only a=20
few command-line programs on Win2k, so what do you actually want to=20
control with Expect?  Sure, Cygwin provides a lot of standard unix=20
tools, but then, why moving to Win2k in the first place?

Sorry if this seems like a rant, but you are probably better off if you=20
install Linux on those PCs...

Roland
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