Libes, D.
(1995),
Ouch Those Programs are Painful, , , [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=821289
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Ouch Those Programs are Painful
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Expect is a program to control interactive applications. These applications interactively prompt and expect auser to enter keystrokes in response. By using Expect, you can write simple scripts to automate theseinteractions. And using automated interactive programs, you will be able to solve problems that you neverwould have even considered before. In this article Don Libes, the author of Expect, gives a quick overview ofsome of the things you can do.Citation
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expect, interaction, programmed dialogue, shell, Tcl, UNIX
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Created October 1, 1995, Updated February 17, 2017