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Expect: Curing Those Uncontrollable Fits of Interaction
Published
Author(s)
Don E. Libes
Abstract
UNIX programs used to be designed so that they could be connected with pipes created by a shell. This paradigm is insufficient when dealing with many modern programs that demand to be used interactively. Expect is a program designed to control interactive programs. Expect reads a script that resembles the dialogue itself but which may include multiple paths through it.
Libes, D.
(1990),
Expect: Curing Those Uncontrollable Fits of Interaction, Proceedings of the Summer 1990 USENIX Conference, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=821311
(Accessed June 6, 2023)