Fred --

In this case, simple shell scripting would meet the needs.  Wouldn't
expect and TCL be appropriate for complex scripts, which VistA doesn't
appear to need?

-- Bhaskar

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 09:36 -0500, Fred Trotter wrote:
> 
> Generally expect functionality would probably help with lots of the 
> startup and installation functions of VistA.
> 
> I would suggest however, that you use either the perl or python
> expect 
> modules. Especially the python - excpect module would help to ensure 
> that your code was readable and maintainable. expect as a language is 
> something of a one trick pony (although tcl is more powerful)
> 
> Regards, 
> -FT



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