Re: output error messages

He needs to at least expect EOF to have the
shell command or any other at that ) its course.

as nothing is [expect]ed the spawned process is blocked.
spawn itself will only report errors in creating the
spawned process, i.e.
spawn telnex $host $port

expect1.3> spawn telnex ben smtp
spawn telnex ben smtp
couldn't execute "telnex": no such file or directory
while executing
"spawn telnex ben smtp"
expect1.4>

will produce a usefull error ( prob. telnex not found or similar )


OK:
expect1.1> spawn sh "mv a b"
spawn sh mv a b
28289
expect1.2> expect EOF
mv a b: mv a b: No such file or directory
expect1.3> wait
28289 exp4 0 127
expect1.5>

uwe
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