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From: jkh@smspde.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: "expect" for FreeBSD
Date: 25 Apr 1994 12:39:06 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland
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In-reply-to: shaman@mv.mv.com's message of Sun, 24 Apr 1994 18:36:13 GMT

In article <Cos10D.61L@mv.mv.com> shaman@mv.mv.com (Coranth Gryphon) writes:
   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?

freebsd.cdrom.com:~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/ports/util/expect

					Jordan