Thanks for the pointer to dejagnu, although it is not what I was after. The question came about because I was scripting an interface to an electronics design automation tool that comes with a TCL interface. I was using a companion perl script called from the TCL to do most of the more complex checking (I am still not allowed Python at work, sob).
I found myself testing the perl script by calling it repeatedly from tcsh , with different options and different files and directories created in its run directory that I knew it was sensitive to. I scrolled back in my xterm window and thought that there before me was most of my tests! If only their was doctest for tcsh, I could tell the tool what my prompt strings were, cut-n-paste my shell session, and Bobs yer uncle! I guess doctest-alikes could be created for a lot of shell type interfaces with distinct prompts. - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
