From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 24 10:36:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fep06-app.kolumbus.fi (fep06-0.kolumbus.fi [193.229.0.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 079F137B401 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:36:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from coat.st-paul ([212.54.20.95]) by fep06-app.kolumbus.fi with ESMTP id <20020624173607.JAXI20539.fep06-app.kolumbus.fi@coat.st-paul>; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:36:07 +0300 Received: from shoes.st-paul (shoes.st-paul [10.10.10.10]) by coat.st-paul (8.12.3/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5OHZvZQ095940; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:35:57 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from juha.ylitalo@iki.fi) Received: from shoes.st-paul (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shoes.st-paul (8.12.3/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5OHZuT8000858; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:35:56 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from juha.ylitalo@iki.fi) Received: (from jylitalo@localhost) by shoes.st-paul (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5OHZs5T000857; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:35:54 +0300 (EEST) X-Authentication-Warning: shoes.st-paul: jylitalo set sender to juha.ylitalo@iki.fi using -f Subject: Re: Learning Expect From: Juha Ylitalo To: jogegabsd Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 24 Jun 2002 20:35:54 +0300 Message-Id: <1024940154.241.147.camel@shoes.st-paul> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 20:07, jogegabsd wrote: > Hello all. I'm trying to learn expect right now, and I > was wondering if any of you know or have a nice tutorial > or link that I can use to learn expect. > I already check out the "Exploring Expect" book, > but I'm kind of worry the book is to old(besides I have no money :D ) Even though the book was written '94, all that it says about tcl and expect remains to be true and it was quite helpful, when I had to learn expect on my own. I guess biggest weakness in the book is that it doesn't have anything about tcl's built-in packages (except for Tk, that I don't need :-/). For example Tcl's http package is quite convenient if you have to combine command line testing with web related checks and you don't want to code all http handling by yourself. Then again that kind of stuff should probably belong to book that is strictly about Tcl (and I haven't yet found that would give that information to me). If you feel that Exploring Expect is really something that you can't afford, http://expect.nist.gov/ has section for "Articles, Papers and Chapters of Expect". Newest additions on that list are from '99. In other sections, they have links to FAQs, tutorials, etc. www.usenix.org also has some conference papers, which cover expect. -- Juha Ylitalo juha.ylitalo@iki.fi +358 40 562 6152 http://www.iki.fi/jylitalo "Some tools are used, because its policy, others because they are good." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message