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Introduction Expect is a tool for automating interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect really makes this stuff trivial. Expect is also useful for testing these same applications. And by adding Tk, you can also wrap interactive applications in X11 GUIs. Expect can make easy all sorts of tasks that are prohibitively difficult with anything else. You will find that Expect is an absolutely invaluable tool – using it, you will be able to automate tasks that you’ve never even thought of before – and you’ll be able to do this automation quickly and easily. More information on Expect is available in the following documents: * Download Expect for UNIX or Expect for Windows now! * Exploring Expect is the book on Expect. * Expect FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions List) * Examples that come with Expect. * Contributed scripts in the public Expect archive * The Expect README is the same README file that comes with Expect. The README has lots of valuable infor
