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-miniexpect is a very simple expect-like library for C.
+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.
+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.
 
-It is standalone, except that it requires the PCRE (Perl Compatible
-Regular Expressions) library from http://www.pcre.org/.  The PCRE
-dependency is fundamental because we want to offer the most powerful
-regular expression syntax to match on, but more importantly because
-PCRE has a convenient way to detect partial matches which made this
-library very simple to implement.
+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
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 Using the library
 -----------------
 
-The API is described in miniexpect.h.
+If you wanted to copy the library into your own code (instead of
+linking to it as a dependency), you only need to copy the two files:
+miniexpect.h, miniexpect.c.
+
+The API is documented in the manual page (miniexpect.pod / miniexpect.3).
 
-To understand how to use the API, take a look at the examples and
+For examples of how to use the API in reality, see the examples and
 tests in the source directory.