Expect Progam

[Vasudevan MV]

Hi,

I have written a small expect script which will telnet to a particular ip & will do the login process automatically. Then it launches an application called "hots" on the command prompt. The hots application screen looks like this
1 - Add
2 - Command Prompt
3 - Exit
In the script after issuing "hots" on the command prompt, it interacts with the user. As soon as user selects "3" it should come out from the application & close the telnet session.

The second thing is when the user selects "2" option, the user can see his home directory(application server) & if the user presses ctrl+d on the command prompt, the application getting closed & come back to the same place(telnet session).

Can any one tell me how to handle the above mentioned things in a expect script?

Thanks
Vasu

[harry d brown jr]

I'd personally use perl with the expect and telnet modules.

Here is a site describing the use of Expect.pm:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/CodeDoc/Expect/Expect.html

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harry

[Vasudevan MV]

Harry,

Thanks for your quick reply, but I dont have perl on my box. So, I want to do the whole thing in Expect/Tcl script only.

Vasu

[harry d brown jr]

Vasu,

I'd start here then:

http://expect.nist.gov/

You can get perl from:
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Languages/perl-5.6.1/

and the expect and telnet modules:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Expect/
http://search.cpan.org/doc/JROGERS/Net-Telnet-3.02/lib/Net/Telnet.pm

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harry