Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: [ ruby-Bugs-5036 ] Please implement expect.rb for Windows Ruby"
>     on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:44:51 +0900, <noreply / rubyforge.org> writes:
>
> |Adapting my scripts to not use expect.rb would be an exceptional pain.  Please implement expect.rb for Windows Ruby.
>
> I feel sympathy for your pain.  But expect.rb highly depends on pty
> which is not available on Windows.  It is nearly impossible for us to
> implement it without pty.  We need to wait until some Windows expert
> would write expect.rb counterpart using Win32 features.  Sorry.
>
> 							matz.
>   
How does "regular" expect, which is based on Tcl, work on a Windows 
system? I think I've seen it.