RE: [Expectperl-discuss] Help me

[Rogaski, M. A. <ro...@at...>]

: From: Austin Schutz [mailto:te...@of...]
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: On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 01:35:53PM -0200, Paulo Roberto wrote:
: > Hi, i=B4m from Brazil, and i try make interface program (with=20
: terminal 3270) to web...
: >=20
: > I have so problem, may someone could help me....
: >=20
: > I need execute e send commands to program, and pick up the=20
: screen and show to user in web...
: > Execute i can, but pick up the screen and send command i don=B4t =
know
: > Down have the script ...
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: 	Try setting $Expect::Exp_Internal and $Expect::Debug=20
: and see if those
: help show why it's not matching 'data: .*'. It may be, if=20
: it's a curses client,
: that it doesn't actually print 'data: ' each time it puts new=20
: data on the
: screen.
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I've worked with another control-character-happy interface, too.  What I =
usually do is use the UNIX 'script' utility to capture a manual session, =
then I examine the captured data in 'less' (a recent, 8-bit capable =
release) or with 'cat -vAT' to figure out what sort of junk is being =
inserted in the text I'm trying to match.

Mark

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