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To: Brian Petry <bpetry@priacc.com>
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Subject: Re: B20.1: expect: spawn -open doesn't work
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From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <vzell@de.oracle.com>
Date: 21 Jul 1999 20:15:44 +0200
In-Reply-To: Brian Petry's message of "21 Jul 99 20:01:28 +0200"
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>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Petry <bpetry@priacc.com> writes:

    Brian> Hello,

    Brian> It looks like "spawn -open" doesn't work.

    Brian> This can be easily recreated by running the spawn test
    Brian> script in source distribution.

    Brian> The error text reported by expect (or tcl) is "bad file
    Brian> number".

    Brian> I'm trying use something like "spawn -open [open
    Brian> /dev/com1]".

    Brian> Does anyone have a patch for this problem?

I recompiled tcl from the Cygwin distribution as a X11 app by
undefining __WIN32__

I get:

expect1.1> spawn -open [open /dev/com1]
spawn [open ...]
0
expect1.2> 


Ciao
  Volker


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