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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 18:51:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: mikem <mike_makonnen@yahoo.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: How to automatically pass input to interactive commands
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You could do a make -DDISTRIB all with XFree86-4, or write an expect
script to spawn the command, and answer the questions for you.

Joe Clarke

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, mikem wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to be able to run some interactive scripts
> and programs from a script. How can I do that.
>
> For example: the XFree86 port. It requires that you
> answer some questions before it installs. What I would
> like is to be able to start a script and walk away
> >from the computer. The script will run make and
> answer any questions (the answers to the questions
> will already be somewhere in my script) that the
> installation script asks. So, when I come back a few
> hours later XFree86 is compiled and ready to go.
>
> I'm sure there must be some answer to this. I just
> haven't figured it out yet.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
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