This product contains a README. Expect is a program for controlling other programs. It is written using TCL (see the tcl product) and provides several commands for controlling other programs in addition to the basic TCL command set. These added commands are described in the expect.1 manual page.

A version of expect which also includes the Tk graphics toolkit (see tk) for graphical user interfaces is included in the executable expectk described in the expectk.1 manual page.

Finally the C callable routines in libexpect.a are described in the libexpect.3 manual page.

A book, Exploring Expect by Don Libes (the author of expect) is published by O'Reilly and Associates, and is available at your favorite computer bookstore.