At 11:36 PM 23/09/2001, Neil Zanella wrote:
>It is possible and not very hard at all.
>But why would you need expect? Why not
>just use a shell script?
Because the task I need the script to do is best done using Expect (its
interfacing with a serial port doing things with some data pulled out of a
database).
A psuedo flow of what it does is -
* Fire off the expect script
* The expect script grabs fields of data from mysql
* The expect script uses that data and interfaces with a device hanging off
a serial port.
* The script ends with the result based on whether the interaction with the
serial device succeeds or not.
Thats why Im wanting to use expect... and thats why I am trying to find a
way to get mysql data into an expect script.
Chris
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