From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-09-29T11:28:09+09:00
Subject: Re: popen3

> Has anyone had good luck using popen3 to control an interactive program?
> I get the initial output from the program but am not having any luck
> writing to the applications stdin. If anyone has a non-trivial example
> of how to make this work, I would appreciate it.

I can't promise anything, but you could try using 'expect.rb' in the
standard library.  Pickaxe or Nutshell might have something on it, but the
source is small, and it is obviously designed to drive interactive
programs.

Gavin