On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 10:41:23AM -0700, Alex Paschal wrote:

        [I said that Expect wouldn't work]
> Um, that IS where the problem lies.  Right, you can send commands and output
> fine on STDIN and STDOUT via the named pipes.  However, the DSMADMC command

I'm sorry, I thought you misunderstood my original question because I
didn't describe my problem accurately. (And I didn't know the Perl
Expect module does TTY things.)

> be able to put in the password.  The EXPECT module does weird TTY stuff to
> be able to handle whatever input the password prompt does use, just like
> your term tty.

I am now enlightened. Thank you. :-)

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