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- This file describes publicly accessible files in the top-level Expect
- distribution directory. "Z" files are compressed. "gz" files are
- gzipped. - Don Libes.
-
- README
- this file.
-
- HISTORY
- description of different versions of Expect. This is included in the
- Expect distribution itself, but is also made available separately so
- that you can quickly find out if a new version of Expect is available
- (that fixes the bug you reported) without downloading and unpacking
- the whole thing.
-
- alpha.shar.Z
- link to alpha.tar.Z. (I switched to using tar, but older documentation
- still has this name.)
-
- alpha.tar.Z
- source to Expect (version 4 alpha). Requires Tcl 6.7 (called
- "alpha.tcl6.7.tar.Z" in this directory).
-
- alpha.tcl6.7.tar.Z
- Berkeley's Tool Command Language, version 6.7. Required for
- building "Expect" (version 4) in alpha.shar.Z in this directory.
-
- alpha.tk3.2.tar.Z
- Berkeley's Tk, version 3.2. Sort of a "Tcl for Windows". Very
- slick! Expect 4 compatible. This archive includes Tcl.
-
- expect.shar.{Z,gz}
- source to Expect (version 3). Requires Tcl 6 (called "tcl.tar.Z"
- in this directory).
-
- kibitz.ps.Z
- "Kibitz - Connecting Multiple Interactive Programs Together",
- Software - Practice & Experience, John Wiley & Sons, West
- Sussex, England, Vol. 23, No. 5, May 1993.
-
- old (directory)
- source to Expect (version 2) and Tcl (version 3.3).
-
- regress.ps.Z
- "Regression Testing and Conformance Testing Interactive Programs",
- Proceedings of the Summer 1992 USENIX Conference, San Antonio, CA,
- June 8-12, 1992.
-
- scripts (directory)
- Expect scripts, including examples from papers and contributions from
- you. (To contribute, mail your shar'd script to libes@cme.nist.gov)
-
- scripts.ps.Z
- "Expect: Scripts for Controlling Interactive Programs", Computing
- Systems, Vol. 4, No. 2, University of California Press Journals, 1991.
- This paper is a comprehensive set of scripts.
-
- seminal.ps.Z
- "Expect: Curing Those Uncontrollable Fits of Interaction", Proceedings
- of the Summer 1990 USENIX Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 11-15, 1990.
- This paper describes implementation, philosophy, and design of Expect.
-
- sysadm.ps.Z
- "Using Expect to Automate System Administration Tasks", Proceedings of
- the 1990 USENIX Large Systems Administration Conference (LISA) IV,
- Colorado Springs, CO, October 17-19, 1990. This paper provides
- examples and discussion, specifically aimed at system adminstrators.
-
- tcl-debug.ps
- "A Debugger for Tcl Applications", Proceedings of the 1993 Tcl/Tk
- Workshop, Berkeley, CA, June 10-11, 1993. This paper describes how
- to use the debugger and how to integrate it into other Tcl
- applications.
-
- tcl-debug.tar.{Z,gz}
- A debugger for Tcl applications. This includes the paper in
- tcl-debug.ps.
-
- tcl.tar.Z
- Berkeley's Tool Command Language, version 6.4. Required for
- building "Expect" (version 3) in expect.shar.Z in this directory.
-