scripting "interactive" input

Chris Devers cdevers at pobox.com
Mon Nov 17 15:37:35 EST 2003


On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Dan Barrett wrote:

> expect is the right word

Doh! My last mail suggested Curses, but I meant Expect (which can be used
to script Curses based apps, hence the confusion). Oops.

Give script a try too though, it's really nifty, and not as well known as
it probably deserves to be. If you're comfortable with Macs, it's a bit
like turning on "observe mode" for the AppleScript editor, or the
mechanism for recording macros in programs like Photoshop -- that is, it's
for high level, "you don't need to think, just act naturally" scripting.



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