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I used Tcl and Expect on Solaris at a job in 1995

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I’ve used Expect on Windows systems. Active State provided commercial distributions of TCL for Windows.

> Hate when everything Unix automatically gets categorized as Linu

Those days, people are thought to not bother their brain with useless words and knowledge.

For example, expect(1) is described in the 1989 Don Libes book "Life with UNIX". Libes is the author of Expect. A title such as "Life with Linux" would probably have made little sense at the time.

Correction: I went back and looked at the book and it does not mention expect. According to Wikipedia expect was first released the following year, in 1990. Apologies for the inadvertence.

Nevethless I think it is safe to say that expect was not written using or for Linux as Linux was not released until 1991.

I used to use it on HP-UX in the 90s.

Poor soul.