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Exploring Expect (Nutshell Handbooks) View Larger Image | Don Libes
O'Reilly Media, Paperback, Published December 1994, 602 pages, ISBN 1565920902 | List Price: $34.95
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Expect is quickly becoming a part of every UNIX user's toolbox. It
allows you to automate telnet, ftp, passwd, rlogin, and hundreds of
other applications that normally require human interaction. Using
Expect to automate these applications will allow you to speed up tasks
and, in many cases, solve new problems that you never would have even
considered before.
For example, you can use Expect to test interactive programs with no
changes to their interfaces. Or wrap interactive programs with
Motif-like front-ends to control applications by buttons, scrollbars,
and other graphic elements with no recompilation of the original
programs. You don't even need the source code! Expect works with
remote applications, too. Use it to tie together Internet applications
including telnet, archie, ftp, gopher, and mosaic.
Don Libes is the creator of Expect as well as the author of this book.
In Exploring Expect, he provides a comprehensive tutorial on all of
Expect's features, allowing you to put it immediately to work on your
problems. In a down-to-earth and humorous style, he provides numerous
examples of challenging real-world applications and how they can be
automated using Expect to save you time and money.
Expect is the first of a new breed of programs based on Tcl, the Tool
Command Language that is rocking the computer science community. This
book provides an introduction to Tcl and describes how Expect applies
Tcl's power to the new field of interaction automation. Whether your
interest is in Expect or interaction automation or you simply want to
learn about Tcl and see how it has been used in real software, you will
find Exploring Expect a treasure trove of easy-to-understand and
valuable information.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 1 Average Customer Rating: Sep 9, 1999 David Laird from Campbell, CA
If you need Expect, get this book!
If you want to use Expect to automate interactive command-line applications, this is the definitive text.
Don's text seems to cover almost everything you would need to know about Expect. The examples and explanations start out simple, and progress to fairly sophisticated applications, with complete treatment of common problems. Using a few expect scripts, I was able to create a suite of automatic test programs to test our product in just a couple of weeks. Expect is perfect for automating telnet connections, minicom (Text-based program similar to ProComm), and interactions using the serial port, among others.
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