tburba on Fri, 3 Sep 1999 13:24:05 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] (was) Need keyfake -- new to Expect





I'm new to Expect. The man pages have some advanced (to me) examples and
I'm stuck on top-dead-center. Can someone provide a _real_real_ simple,
commented, working example that can get me started? Many tanks...
Yours,
Tom




mortis@voicenet.com on 09/02/99 05:00:49 PM

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Subject:  Re: [Plug] Need keyfake




for controlling input in a deterministic way, you can either try
shell redirection (which you may have said you don't want), or try
expect.
shell redirection (often called plumbing):  < > |

as far as doing this for a GUI app, I'm not aware of any linux tools
for doing this, but I'd be surprised if they didn't exist.
k
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On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com wrote:
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>
>
> All,
> Back in the dirty DOS days, I used a nifty little program called
"keyfake".
> It could pass keystrokes to another program (any kind) thru a batch
> (script) process. Does this exist in Linux? How can I get it? BTW, I'm
not
> talking about command line switches and passing literals to them.
> Searchlinux shows nada.
> Thanks.
>
>
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