Re: autoexpect on 5.0.7

From: Tony Lawrence (foo_at_pcunix.com)
Date: 04/20/05

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    Tom Parsons wrote:
    > Tony Lawrence enscribed:
    > | Tom Parsons wrote:
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    > | > | Tom Parsons wrote:
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    > | > | > | I'm sure I've used autoexpect on SCO systems in the past, but maybe not..
    > | > | > |
    > | > | > | I tried both versions from Skunkware. "autoexpect" by itself should,
    > | > | > | for example, just show a shell prompt and continue from there. Instead,
    > | > | > | everything seems to be buffered - which I expect autexpect to take care
    > | > | > | of by itself.
    > | > | > |
    > | > | > | I've tried this on two systems now, same results. If I start autoexpect
    > | > | > | somewhere else, I can ssh on into the SCO and everything is fine, but
    > | > | > | not if I ssh in and start it there..
    > | > | >
    > | > | > I've some unexplained problems with expect and the lame 5.0.7 ssh but
    > | > | > not like this.
    > | > | >
    > | > | > Could you be running afoul of the tcl/expect in /usr/gnu/bin?
    > | > |
    > | > | Hmm.. no, that's not installed.. maybe that's the problem.. I just
    > | > | installed expect, nothing else. Tcl is /bin/tcl.. so does it want the
    > | > | Gnu tcl?
    > | >
    > | > I've usually had Expect complain if it couldn't find tcl. I'm currently
    > | > using expect-5.30, tcl-8.1.1 and tclX-8.1.1 on 5.0.7
    > | >
    > | > On a FreeBSD box (where it is easier to find), expect-5.38.0_3 lists
    > | > tcl-8.4.6,1 and tk-8.4.6,1 as dependencies
    > | >
    > |
    > | Well, now I'm totally confused. I found tcl-8.1.1-VOLS.tar on
    > | skunkware, but that doesn't include tcl - just tclsh..
    > |
    > | Alligators, draining the swamp.. I don't want to have to care about Tcl :-)
    >
    > For reasons unexplained, tcl is in tclX-8.1.1 on Skunkware

    Oh, of course :-)

    But unfortunately, that didn't help this situation at all..

    As I've said before, no wonder people give up on SCO..

    Oh well - I dunno how to solve this one..

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    Tony Lawrence
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