- Paperback: 606 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (Dec 8 1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1565920902
- ISBN-13: 978-1565920903
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 17.8 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
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- #62 in Books > Computers & Internet > Operating Systems > Unix
- #78 in Books > Computers & Internet > Operating Systems > Linux
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Book Description
Expect is quickly becoming a part of every UNIX user's toolbox. It allows you to automate Telnet, FTP, passwd, rlogin, and hundreds of other applications that normally require human interaction. Using Expect to automate these applications will allow you to speed up tasks and, in many cases, solve new problems that you never would have even considered before.
For example, you can use Expect to test interactive programs with no changes to their interfaces. Or wrap interactive programs with Motif-like front-ends to control applications by buttons, scrollbars, and other graphic elements with no recompilation of the original programs. You don't even need the source code! Expect works with remote applications, too. Use it to tie together Internet applications including Telnet, Archie, FTP, Gopher, and Mosaic.
Don Libes is the creator of Expect as well as the author of this book. In Exploring Expect, he provides a comprehensive tutorial on all of Expect's features, allowing you to put it immediately to work on your problems. In a down-to-earth and humorous style, he provides numerous examples of challenging real-world applications and how they can be automated using Expect to save you time and money.
Expect is the first of a new breed of programs based on Tcl, the Tool Command Language that is rocking the computer science community. This book provides an introduction to Tcl and describes how Expect applies Tcl's power to the new field of interaction automation. Whether your interest is in Expect or interaction automation or you simply want to learn about Tcl and see how it has been used in real software, you will find Exploring Expect a treasure trove of easy-to-understand and valuable information.
From the Publisher
Written by the author of Expect, this is the first book to explain how this part of the UNIX toolbox can be used to automate Telnet, FTP, passwd, rlogin, and hundreds of other interactive applications. Based on Tcl (Tool Command Language), Expect lets you automate interactive applications that have previously been extremely difficult to handle with any scripting language.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
disappointing book for an essential topic,
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This review is from: Exploring Expect: A Tcl-based Toolkit for Automating Interactive Programs (Paperback)
Reading this book it appears that expect has wonderful promise. However the book does not have the type of examples that are complete and lead to understanding. Many times I wished I could just type in a complete example to see the subject in action. Most often the code is incomplete and would require a lot of extra coding to get a working example. For those of us that have limited time to spend on reworking examples this is a royal pain in the gazoo. Hear Hear to the idea posted earlier, that there should be an "expect cookbook". Buy this book because it is the only one available. I can truely say this book manages to be both a blessing and a CURSE.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Nice reference to have,
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This review is from: Exploring Expect: A Tcl-based Toolkit for Automating Interactive Programs (Paperback)
The good thing about this book is that it gives one a basic back ground of TCL before delving into Expect which, makes it an excellent "quick" reference book to have on the shelf. The only drawback I can really think of is that it is not extensive as it should be to make it an exhaustive reference guide. Nice book. Worth the money you pay.
2.0 out of 5 stars
No other choice,
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This review is from: Exploring Expect: A Tcl-based Toolkit for Automating Interactive Programs (Paperback)
If you are a beginner and you survived using this book, consider it as an accomplishment. This book is quite difficult to understand, it takes a lot of testing. Even a short example cannot quite explained by the author properly. The way the author explains something he thinks that all the audience are like John Ousterhout.This book gave me a headache browsing back and forth looking for some answers. However, I will give Don Libes a 2* because of the effort. Too bad there is really no alternative out there. Once I learned Expect from trial and errors and more headaches I can probably write a better one.
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