On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Edward Peschko wrote: > I noticed that ActiveState had ported Expect to windows, and would > like to use the perl Expect module natively on win32 rather than write > a wrapper around Expect (the program). > > Who did the Expect translation at ActiveState, and how easy would > it be to modify IO::Pty to be native on win32? (rather than say, > using cygwin)
Expect on Windows effectively acts as a debugger, doing dirty tricks like hooking system APIs and injecting code into the other processes to get the level of control required by Expect. It is not simply a pty emulation. It only tries to look like one. :) It was written by our Tcl guys; I don't really know anything about it. Cheers, -Jan _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
