X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=README;fp=README;h=030d26570f4192b9e1ce2b7512842e78f3d3f32f;hb=f50ad471e49d3fc5d4d896fbd5b6d2be93192671;hp=1884e3e84b683a4aa601cfd0d53be99faa85e4c0;hpb=239fab3e3bb2f06a19db3cd1c3e91c93c7141891;p=miniexpect.git diff --git a/README b/README index 1884e3e..030d265 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,14 +1,19 @@ -miniexpect is a very simple expect-like library - -It has a saner interface than libexpect, and doesn't depend on Tcl. -It is also thread safe, const-correct and uses modern C standards. - -It is standalone, except that it requires the PCRE2 (Perl Compatible -Regular Expressions) library from http://www.pcre.org/. The PCRE2 -dependency is fundamental because we want to offer the most powerful -regular expression syntax to match on, but more importantly because -PCRE2 has a convenient way to detect partial matches which made this -library very simple to implement. +Miniexpect is a very simple expect-like library + +Expect (https://core.tcl-lang.org/expect/index) is a venerable Tcl +program for automating interactive services, often for automating +logins over telnet, ftp, ssh, etc. + +Miniexpect is a C library which has a saner interface than libexpect, +and doesn't depend on Tcl. It is also thread safe, const-correct and +uses modern C standards. + +Miniexpect is standalone, except that it requires the PCRE2 (Perl +Compatible Regular Expressions) library from http://www.pcre.org/. +The PCRE2 dependency is fundamental because we want to offer the most +powerful regular expression syntax to match on, but more importantly +because PCRE2 has a convenient way to detect partial matches which +made miniexpect very simple to implement. License -------