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Expect predates Linux by years. It is an old school portable program.
by jeffbee 2y ago
Expect predates Linux by years. It is an old school portable program.
- lizknope 2y agoIt looks like Expect was first released in 1990 and Linux in 1991 although Linux wasn't really that usable until around 1993.
- jeffbee 2y agoI don't think it's unfair to say that they iterated on Linux until it could run expect :-)
- lizknope 2y agoYeah, I remember reading some posts around 1993 where someone wanted to port some existing Unix program to Linux. Instead of modifying the program they added the missing functionality to Linux. I think it was about polling and signal handling or something like that.