After further study, I probably would have had to setup
a named pipe to capture expect's output in to strings which
would have not bought me anything useful for this situation.
We needed to know what was going on with expect as it happened,
not after the fact. More study shows that there is
When using the expect module in a perl program, one can log
expect output to a file with a command like
$exp->log_file($somefilename);
You can turn off STDOUT with
$exp->log_stdout(0);
Is there a way to capture either the file output or
expect's STDOUT directly i