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  • Paperback: 606 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (8 Dec 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1565920902
  • ISBN-13: 978-1565920903
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 17.8 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 274,271 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.

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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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This is about the hardest-to-use computer language book I've ever encountered. Its "conversational" tone reads like a ceaseless wandering monologue. Frequently Libes introduces a new concept, and proceeds to meander into philosophy, opinion, history, advanced uses, and problems encountered therein. It is *much* too long; it's badly organized; it's useless as a reference manual. I would pay big bucks for ANY other book on Expect, but unfortunately there doesn't appear to be one. Libes created a very powerful and useful tool, but he doesn't write well, IMHO.
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The coverage of tcl upon which expect is based is very good - better in a lot of ways than actual tcl/tk books. However the main part of the book on expect is very frustrating - the author will introduce a subject and then tell you he will show you a better/different way in another chapter. This happens very frequently and it gives the book a rather hapharzd feel. Having said that it is about the only book dedicated to expect so if you want to learn an extremely useful tool you'd better buy it.
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The index is pretty complete. I use it at work as a reference book. It is also slimmer than my other programming books. Using the sample problems, I can spot solution patterns I need many-a-time. In many places, he includes page numbers to cite other sections of his book, and this helps keep from getting lost in his writing. If you are new to Tcl, this book may be a whisker higher up on the learning curve than you're looking for. Expect is based on Tcl, but this book isn't meant to teach Tcl. You probably should get a good Tcl book to sit on the shelf next to it. (I have one).
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