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authorBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2020-03-29 20:04:31 +0000
committerBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2020-03-29 20:04:31 +0000
commitdf43be1530e1d385ae634ebc22e5b3000fd362d4 (patch)
tree28464f2119d5486e9ecd453df42b7eeadfa64e97 /chapter05
parent97af73804ecc5887e0b2784e9df903527c5f91e9 (diff)
Textual updates thanks to Kevin Buckley.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11800 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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-rw-r--r--chapter05/dejagnu.xml5
-rw-r--r--chapter05/expect.xml11
-rw-r--r--chapter05/tcl.xml4
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/chapter05/dejagnu.xml b/chapter05/dejagnu.xml
index bae0ed7d9..a821e9bba 100644
--- a/chapter05/dejagnu.xml
+++ b/chapter05/dejagnu.xml
@@ -23,8 +23,9 @@
<sect2 role="package">
<title/>
- <para>The DejaGNU package contains a framework for testing other
- programs.</para>
+ <para>The <application>DejaGnu</application> package contains a framework for running test
+ suites on GNU tools. It is written in <command>expect</command>, which itself
+ uses <application>Tcl</application> (Tool Command Language).</para>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
diff --git a/chapter05/expect.xml b/chapter05/expect.xml
index ae6f50026..a2cc67d0e 100644
--- a/chapter05/expect.xml
+++ b/chapter05/expect.xml
@@ -23,8 +23,15 @@
<sect2 role="package">
<title/>
- <para>The Expect package contains a program for carrying out scripted
- dialogues with other interactive programs.</para>
+ <para>The <application>Expect</application> package contains tools for
+ automating, via scripted dialogues, interactive applications such as
+ <command>telnet</command>, <command>ftp</command>,
+ <command>passwd</command>, <command>fsck</command>,
+ <command>rlogin</command>, and <command>tip</command>.
+ <application>Expect</application> is also useful for testing these same
+ applications as well as easing all sorts of tasks that are prohibitively
+ difficult with anything else. The <application>DejaGnu</application>
+ framework is written in <application>Expect</application>.</para>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
diff --git a/chapter05/tcl.xml b/chapter05/tcl.xml
index a186e0fde..f2265fd8d 100644
--- a/chapter05/tcl.xml
+++ b/chapter05/tcl.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@
<sect2 role="package">
<title/>
- <para>The Tcl package contains the Tool Command Language.</para>
+ <para>The <application>Tcl</application> package contains the Tool Command Language,
+ a robust general-purpose scripting language. The <application>Expect</application> package
+ is written in the <application>Tcl</application> language.</para>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>