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From: "Wolmarans, Brett" <brett DOT wolmarans AT spirentcom DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: invalid spawn id (4)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:33:00 -0800
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Hey, nobody ever replied but the answer is, don't use Microsoft telnet
client with cygwin expect.  

Install cygwin telnet client ( NOT installed by default, heaven alone knows
why when they have a gazillion other things installed by default that will
only be useful to 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of the user
base )  

Anybody know how to resolve or work around this bug in expect: invalid spawn
id (4) the first time I try to something incredibly common such as use
expect to automate a telnet session.  I could not find any references to
this in the faq or archives, found one hit on google but no solution.

cygwin version: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 bwolmarans-98 1.5.4(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-12 23:08
i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
expect version: 8.4.1 ( output from info patchlevel command )
O/S version: w2k pro SP3

log:
bwolmarans AT bwolmarans-98 ~
$ expect
expect1.1> spawn telnet 10.26.0.100
spawn telnet 10.26.0.100
1424
expect1.2> expect ogin
expect1.3> send bwolmarans\n
send: invalid spawn id (4)
    while executing
"send bwolmarans\n"
expect1.4>

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