This document contains the following major sections:
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Following is the release identification information for Expect:
Software Product: Freeware Expect
Release: 5.18
System Software Requirements: IRIX 5.3 or later
After you install the online release notes for a product (the relnotes subsystem), you can view the release notes on your screen. Using your favorite Web Browser (e.g. netscape) select the index file file for viewing.
The author of this product is: Don Libes <libes@nist.gov>.
Expect includes these subsystems:
| fw_expect.sw.expect (default) | Expect execution environment. |
| fw_expect.sw.example | Expect example scripts. |
| fw_expect.sw.dev | Expect development environment. |
| fw_expect.man.expect (default) | Expect's online manual pages (preformatted). |
| fw_expect.man.example | Online manual pages for the example scripts. |
| fw_expect.man.dev | Online manual pages for the development environment. |
| fw_expect.man.relnotes (default) | Expect's online release notes. |
| fw_expect.src | The complete Expect 5.18 software distribution from which this product was built. |
This section lists the Expect subsystems and their sizes.
If you are installing this product for the first time, the subsystems marked ``default'' are the ones that are installed if you use the ``go'' menu item. To install a different set of subsystems, use the ``install,'' ``remove,'' ``keep,'' and ``step'' commands in inst to customize the list of subsystems to be installed, then select the ``go'' menu item.
Note: The listed subsystem sizes are approximate. Refer to the Software Installation Administrator's Guide for information on finding exact sizes.
| Subsystem | Size |
|---|---|
| fw_expect.man.dev | 17 Kb |
| fw_expect.man.example | 41 Kb |
| fw_expect.man.expect | 45 Kb |
| fw_expect.man.relnotes | 11 Kb |
| fw_expect.src.expect | 1386 Kb |
| fw_expect.sw.dev | 1609 Kb |
| fw_expect.sw.example | 102 Kb |
| fw_expect.sw.expect | 1492 Kb |
Your workstation must be running IRIX 5.3 or later in order to use this product.
A book on Expect is available from O'Reilly with the title Exploring Expect: A Tcl-Based Toolkit for Automating Interactive Applications, ISBN 1-56592-090-2.