From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-07-20T14:05:26+09:00
Subject: Re: [ ruby-Bugs-5036 ] Please implement expect.rb for Windows Ruby

Hi,

In message "Re: [ ruby-Bugs-5036 ] Please implement expect.rb for Windows Ruby"
    on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:12:22 +0900, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@cesmail.net> writes:

|> I feel sympathy for your pain.  But expect.rb highly depends on pty
|> which is not available on Windows.  It is nearly impossible for us to
|> implement it without pty.  We need to wait until some Windows expert
|> would write expect.rb counterpart using Win32 features.  Sorry.

|How does "regular" expect, which is based on Tcl, work on a Windows 
|system? I think I've seen it.

I don't know.  It could be a great hint to implement expect like new
library that works on Windows.  We hope we see volunteers.

							matz.