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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: "expect" for FreeBSD
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References: <Cos10D.61L@mv.mv.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 20:34:29 GMT
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In <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?
I think watch the ports area on freebsd.cdrom.com
(ftp://freebsd.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/packages/...) or
(ftp://freebsd.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports)
(I may have that a bit wrong)
I seem to remember seeing some commit messages about expect coming
through.
Geoff.
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