[340] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Running 'butc' in background (was: YES NONE)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hakan Torbjar)
Wed Oct 16 08:37:15 1991
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 91 11:52:48 GMT
From: Hakan Torbjar <torbjar@utc.chalmers.se>
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: <Added.Mcz0FXT0Bi81M23k9M@transarc.com>
Now and then, people express a wish to run `butc' in the background
(perhaps started by `backup').
I think the tool to use is `expect', described as "a program designed
to control interactive programs. `expect' reads a script that
resembles the dialogoue itself but which may include multiple paths
through it." The script includes send/expect (regular expression)
sequences, a high-level language and job control. Thus it should be
possible to write a script that controls both `backup' and `butc'
concurrently and responds to output from either one.
If anyone would like to give it a try, `expect' (and `tcl', which it
builds on) were available from durer.cme.nist.gov in pub/expect.shar.Z
and pub/tcl.tar.Z; I haven't checked if they still are. AFS cells in
Europe may find them in /afs/ctp.se.ibm.com/common/usr/src/pd/expect and
.../tcl.
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