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Re: Help with Expect & Xterm



On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Jay Mallar wrote:

>I can't seem to get expect to talk to my xterm.

You can't use expect to interact with X stuff, only terminal stuff. So you
can control the shell _inside_ the terminal, but not an xterm. Therefore,
you should start your expect script inside a new xterm

xterm -e myexpectscript

Where your expect script would spawn telnet.

Cameron Kerr
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cameron.kerr@paradise.net.nz
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/




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