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Expect for ActiveTcl

grahams — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:04:07 +0100

Expect for ActiveTcl should be installed using the TEApot mechanism.
Following the 8.5.0 release, many formerly built-in extensions have been migrated to the TEApot distribution system. This allows these extensions to be updated by users without recourse to a full-scale upgrade.

Extensions distributed through TEApot must be downloaded after installation, but there are several ways to accomplish this. Using Expect as an example:
From tclsh8.5 -
%teacup install Expect
From Windows command line -
C:>\teacup install Expect

If teacup fails to connect, you are most likely behind a proxy server or a firewall which is blocking the outbound connection request. If you have a proxy server, you can set the http_proxy environment variable to tell teacup how to make a connection.
Set the http_proxy variable with the hostname or IP address of the proxy server:
http_proxy=http://proxy.example.org
If the proxy server requires a user name and password, include them in the following form:
http_proxy=http://username:password@proxy.example.org
If the proxy server uses a port other than 80, include the port number:
http_proxy=http://username:password@proxy.example.org:8080

Once teacup is working, you can also install the entire TEA repository at once.
From tclsh8.5 -
%teacup update
From Windows command line -
C:>\teacup update

A third way to get extensions for 8.5.2 is to install 8.5.2 over top of 8.4.18. Modules from 8.4.18 are compatible with 8.5.2, and this also gives you both tclsh and tclsh8.5, wish and wish8.5, 8.4 basekits and 8.5 basekits. Furthermore, it enables all the demos in ActiveTcl and TclDevKit, since many of them are dependent on ActiveTcl 8.4. If you decide to go this route, you must uninstall 8.5.2, then install 8.4.18 and re-install 8.5.2 on top of it.

Expect Download

shyam singh — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:17:55 +0000

Hi,
These are the location where you can find the Expect package.

packages.debian.org/unstable/interpreters/expect-tcl8.3

http://expect.nist.gov/old/expect-5.43.0.tar.gz.
Regards

Shyam Singh

Expect Download

shyam singh — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:17:54 +0000

Hi,
These are the location where you can find the Expect package.

packages.debian.org/unstable/interpreters/expect-tcl8.3

http://expect.nist.gov/old/expect-5.43.0.tar.gz.
Regards

Shyam Singh

Expect Download

BoTanaka — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:13:22 +0000

Where can you download Expect by itself?

Thanks

Missing packages in Tcl8.5 ?

shyam singh — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:53:03 +0000

It seems to be a problem with new TCL package.Download Expect sepretly & place into the "../tcl/lib" folder it will work.

Missing packages in Tcl8.5 ?

shyam singh — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:53:02 +0000

It seems to be a problem with new TCL package.Download Expect sepretly & place into the "../tcl/lib" folder it will work.

Missing packages in Tcl8.5 ?

philw — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:33:45 +0000

Perhaps I am missing something here, but here goes ...

I came across the news of Tcl8.5 being released, and not having used Tcl in anger for several years, decided to download 8.5 and have a look at new features.

I have not used ActiveState Tcl before, having used cygwins tclsh, wish and expect distributions.

I was expecting :-) to see mention of expect, incrtcl, and all of the other additions in one of the install directories, but cannot find a trace.

When I try to 'package require Expect' I get a package not found error message.

Is there a problem with the Windows 8.5 distrib ?

Regards

Phil W