I have a gut feeling that expect requires true multitasking and IPC, which DOS doesn't offer but it may be available in some environments like Desqview/X. Not certain.
On September 24, 2019 9:14:26 AM PDT, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 8:35 AM ZB <zbigniew2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 08:25:43AM -0700, Ben Collver wrote: >> >> > Tcl is a script language originally created by Dr. John Ousterhout, >who is >> > currently a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. >> >> Thanks! >> I'm actually somewhat amazed, how underestimated TCL/Tk nowadays is > >The "killer app" for TCL is Expect, a TCL script from Don Libes at the >US National Bureau of Standards. Expect permits automated connections >to systems that don't support that out of the box. I've used TCL and >Expect to automate file transfer between a Solaris host and a NT >Server machine, to send nightly production reports to a public facing >server where the client could see them. > >TCL is also popular among QA Engineers. It's just the thing for >building test harnesses for running automated tests against code to >insure it behaves as specified. > >TCL has been overshadowed by script languages like Java and Python, >but fills a particular niche nicely. > >> regards, >> Zbigniew >______ >Dennis > > >_______________________________________________ >Freedos-user mailing list >Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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