http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/a07a52f9fbb0e840 ["expect_out(buffer) has the content of the previous send"] Expect inherits some FMMs [http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/fmm.html] from [Tcl], of course. Expect is widely misunderstood, though--for instance, "[Most programmers don't know what Expect can do for them]"--and it's easy to identify several faults which are both specific to and characteristic of Expect. "[Don't Expect to sleep]" is an example. ---- [Category Expect]