While [sleep] is a legitimate [Expect] command, it often appears out of confusion. Sometimes programmers perceive that an Expect [script] is unreliable, and try to help things along by introduction of a little delay; this is often a symptom of the root cause that they have misunderstood that for which they're waiting. They might have written expect Password sleep 1 send $next_command\r where they'd be far better served to write expect Password: send $next_command\r Sometimes they simply don't understand expect's pattern-matching at all, and rely on cargo-cultish "dead reckoning" to express their Expect dialogues [http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2009-May/147978.html]. ---- !!!!!! %| enter categories here |% !!!!!!