In article <66vr145h4fub9ks0l6depgs62rnjlfnoar@4ax.com>,
Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance@OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> wrote:
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>Thanks for the reply. I've installed tcp [TCL] and expect, but I find the
>expect manpage to be hard reading. I've managed to get it to display a
>post, although I don't really know how to separate the server messages
>from the post. The "interact" tells it to display everything, and it
>does exit without user intervention, but I'm sure there's a neater way.

Expect is a little hard going, but learning it is absolutely essential
if you want to consider yourself a Unix scripting guy. The book
"Exploring Expect" (by Don Libes, author of Expect) is absolutely
essential.