hi..
you would have figured out from the subject, what my question would be. i'm trying to automate a script (obviously), and i dont want to use expect (weird eh?)..so, is there any other choice than to use 'expect'? but why do i want to do that? hmmm..that's coz i'm developing a standalone program that i wanna make as light as possible. 'light' in terms of dependencies. a default linux installation doesnt give u the tcl libraries, does it? and i dont want my users to go thro the pain of satisfyin dependencies..
thanx in advance for any help..
cheers

I have this same problem. Unfortunately, there isn't a solution that I know of. I still employ system calls to expect when I need to. I have heard that there is an expect module for perl, but i've never used it. Check cpan.