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Re: Need the Unix equiv. to a (gak!) DOS program. keyboard sim.

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From: Steve Simmons
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 16:46
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marcr@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Marc Rassbach) writes:

>In my foggy memory (and on an uncataloged disk from three Unix boxes ago)
>I had a program that will act like a 'keyboard entry' program under dos.

>The application is to have a 'script' that will 'type' in the 
>proper values for me.  (I have tried a redirect and that did not work.)

You want `expect'.  The master copy is at NIST somewhere, but in
any case archie should dig it up for you.
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From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Subject: Re: Need the Unix equiv. to a (gak!) DOS program. keyboard sim.
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