[ug-bosug] FOSS.in posters

Venky venky.tv at sun.com
Tue Nov 14 22:29:40 PST 2006


> Inline with what I do - use a flash tool to capture the activity on the
> terminal window and generate the swf. I use a nice little software called
> wink(http://www.debugmode.com/wink/download.php) which has a windows version
> and a GTK based linux version. It is a "freeware". Linux version is an older
> one.
> 
> Alternative can be a simple script (shell/perl/tcl) that plays back user
> inputs and the system output. This should be straight forward if
> input/outputs texts are captured.

Expect[1] and Autoexpect[2] could be used for automating
command-line tool demos.  Autoexpect especially makes it very simple
to record a terminal session and play it back.

Venky.

References:
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect
[2] http://www.tcl.tk/man/expect5.31/autoexpect.1.html



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