RJ is a network geek who fell hopelessly in love with TCL and Expect in the line of duty. Stop him before he scripts again.
I picked up the Libes' book on Expect and the Ousterhout book on TCL and started from scratch. The initial goal was to create a script that would give a user a secure way to script logins to various network devices. In two years, it has become a monster. At last count, it is capable of scripted logins to 42 different flavors of network devices and servers.
GO (now a full fledged application, judging by descriptions on the Wiki), is very proprietary, but with some help from the real programmers here, it could be redesigned so that any proprietary procedures could be minimized - thus making GO more adaptable to other implementations.
So, I will be sanitizing the GO application and posting it to new pages linked from this page to give y'all a chance to beat it up. That will take some time though.
In the meantime, here is what it's about - if this wheel already exists, please let me know where:
I strongly note, admit and plead guilty to not knowing what I am doing. GO evolved over my two year learning curve and much of it remains as it began - a first effort. There has never been any optimization attempted, and there are global variables still there that may not be used anymore. In any case, from a week of reading through this wiki, it's clear I really overutilize global variables. Thanks for the forum, JCW and all who contribute.