People want Expect for Windows.

Aspects of it exist.  [Gordon Chaffee] ported 5.21r1b1 to WindowsNT.
Binary and source are available at
[http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/expectnt.html],
and also present in [ActiveTcl]
(? and [Myrmeco]X (?), but not [TclKit]
(for want of [stubs]ication?).
This corresponds to Tcl version 8.?3?.











During the early winter 2001-2002, [Telindustrie LLC] 
briefly support [David Gravereaux]'s work to port 8.4
to Windows.  Davy's much the world's most knowledgeable
person about what this will involve.  He has definite
plans and designs for completion of this task, but no
resources and therefore no schedule.  He writes, 
"There is a *somewhat* working 8.4 ready binary of Expect for windows @
   http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13179 . It's far from
   done. Using spawn with the -open option one can 'expect' on an already
   open channel, such as a socket or a serial port. The 'slave driver'
   aspect of spawn is where all the deep black magic is. The mojo isn't
   yet complete."






































There are lots of ways this could go. [Perl] (and [Python]?) people might
help out with Expect, and Win* expertise perhaps would be part of the
package. Also interesting is a comp.lang.tcl exchange
[http://groups.google.com/groups?q=testchannel+unstack+subcommand+group%3Acomp.lang.tcl*&num=25&hl=en&safe=off&rnum=1&selm=3B5E031F.42FB3BA4%40ActiveState.com]
between
Jiang Wu and Jeffrey Hobbs; note mention of how more of Expect might
move into the Tcl core.













[Andreas Kupries] says
[[2001-sep-20]]
that Expect works fine under [Cygwin].












[[Why and how it doesn't work for Win95.  Problems with interact.]]
[[Experience with Win2000.]]
[[ [Pure-Tcl] [telnet] available--this sometimes suffices.]]










[[Expect 5.25/Tcl 7.6 for Japanese.]]
[[5.31/8.2 as source.]]



[[ [Tony Summerfelt]'s been mostly successful with Expect under Win2000.]]