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Reading the examples in the man page brings me back to a different era of modems and BBSs: "The name 'Expect' comes from the idea of send/expect sequences popularized by uucp, kermit and other modem control programs." "Cause your computer to dial you back, so that you can login without paying for the call." "Start a game (e.g., rogue) and if the optimal configuration doesn't appear, restart it (again and again) until it does, then hand over control to you." "Connect to another network or BBS (e.g., MCI Mail, CompuServe) and automatically retrieve your mail so that it appears as if it was originally sent to your local system." "Carry environment variables, current directory, or any kind of information across rlogin, telnet, tip, su, chgrp, etc." |