Hi Xiaofang: Because expect waits response from unix (or linux) - it 'EXPECTS' a response, it won't work on xp. Expect is more like a tcl script than perl and I don't think there's a tcl script either for xp (or dos) - I may be wrong.
Hope this helps a little. Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gomez, Juan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Xiaofang Zhou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Perl Beginners List" <beginners@perl.org> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 9:59 AM Subject: RE: Re: Perl versus EXPECT(tcl) Hi Xiaofang I don’t think is posible you see pty's are only for unix That’s what I remember and that’s why it crash Let me get some more info and I send it to you Have a good day -----Original Message----- From: Xiaofang Zhou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 11:00 AM To: Perl Beginners List Subject: Re: Re: Perl versus EXPECT(tcl) Hi, Bob, Sounds the expert.pm is cool. But when I try to install the pre-required io::pty, I got a fatal error. Is it possible to install io::tty and expert on xp? --------------------------- cl -c -nologo -O1 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAV E_DES_FCRYPT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX - O1 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -DVERSION=\"1.02\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.02\" -IE:\Perl\lib\ CORE Tty.c Tty.c Tty.xs(94) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'unistd.h': No such fi le or directory NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl' : return code '0x2' Stop. --------------------------- 在 2005-02-11 21:42:00 您写道: >Chris Devers wrote: >> Several programming languages have mechanisms for building wrappers >> around Expect, including Perl. In this case, you need a module like >> Expect.pm or Expect::Simple, as described here: > >Pedantic point: Expect.pm is perhaps best thought of as an Expect >"clone" or "workalike". It does not use or require a tcl installation. > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional >commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> ><http://learn.perl.org/first-response> 致 礼! Xiaofang Zhou [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>