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From: Arun Gupta on 13 Dec 2006 00:07
Hi
I am facinfg a problem in expect
like spawn telnet telnet session opened i want to open hyperterminal
using expect

can any body help me for this .

1)open hyerterminal

2) after press etner

3) prompt comes like 192.168.100.5>

4) when above prompt comes send command like get system info

192.168.100.5>get system info.

please help me if any body knows about this.

From: Arun Gupta on 13 Dec 2006 01:52
I tried spawn command and the path of hyperterminal exe file but error
message was thrown.


'C:\expect_scripts\hypertrm.exe' is not a Win32 console application.
while executing
"spawn "C:/expect_scripts/hypertrm.exe" ip.ht"
(file "./expect2.tcl" line 61)


I also tried using exec command but that opens a new window and no
further commands sent through script are acepted.


On Dec 13, 10:07 am, "Arun Gupta" <arungupta....(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> I am facinfg a problem in expect
> like spawn telnet telnet session opened i want to open hyperterminal
> using expect
>
> can any body help me for this .
>
> 1)open hyerterminal
>
> 2) after press etner
>
> 3) prompt comes like 192.168.100.5>
>
> 4) when above prompt comes send command like get system info
>
> 192.168.100.5>get system info.
>
> please help me if any body knows about this.

From: Wojciech Kocjan on 13 Dec 2006 04:02
Dnia 13-12-2006 o 07:52:37 Arun Gupta <arungupta.sbg(a)gmail.com> napisa�(a):

> I tried spawn command and the path of hyperterminal exe file but error
> message was thrown.
>
>
> 'C:\expect_scripts\hypertrm.exe' is not a Win32 console application.
> while executing
> "spawn "C:/expect_scripts/hypertrm.exe" ip.ht"
> (file "./expect2.tcl" line 61)
>
>
> I also tried using exec command but that opens a new window and no
> further commands sent through script are acepted.

And I believe the error says everything.

The issue is that hyperterminal is a Windows application, not a console
one - although this might be confusing.

Have you considered using telnet.exe from Windows or plink.exe from Putty?

I tried spawning plink.exe and it did work for me - I was able to do some
basic interaction with the unix host.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>plink
PuTTY Link: command-line connection utility
Release 0.58
Usage: plink [options] [user@]host [command]
("host" can also be a PuTTY saved session name)
Options:
-V print version information and exit
-pgpfp print PGP key fingerprints and exit
-v show verbose messages
-load sessname Load settings from saved session
-ssh -telnet -rlogin -raw
force use of a particular protocol
-P port connect to specified port
-l user connect with specified username
-batch disable all interactive prompts

So you should be able to use -telnet if you want to interact with a telnet
session.

--
WK
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From: David Gravereaux on 13 Dec 2006 14:42
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Arun Gupta wrote:

> 'C:\expect_scripts\hypertrm.exe' is not a Win32 console application.


<proud_father>

I'm glad I put in a check for subsystem by reading the PE header. ;)
Bwaa Haa haa.

</proud_father>


No, you can not capture GUI applications because they don't write text to the
system console. They write *whatever* to their own windows. Expect was designed
to grab text sent to a console, by console applications such as telnet.exe,
ftp.exe, net.exe, netstat.exe, cmd.exe, etc..

For automating windows GUI applications, you might consider "winbatch" instead of
Tcl/Expect.

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David Gravereaux <davygrvy(a)pobox.com>
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From: David Gravereaux on 14 Dec 2006 19:08
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David Gravereaux wrote:

> For automating windows GUI applications, you might consider "winbatch" instead of
> Tcl/Expect.

If I'm not mistaken, I think HT uses VBA for scripting and possibly might be
externally controlled with COM (then tcom could be used). But do check to see if
it works.

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David Gravereaux <davygrvy(a)pobox.com>
[species:human; planet:earth,milkyway(western spiral arm),alpha sector]

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