On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 01:25:04AM -0600, lrhorer wrote:
> 
>         I've looked through my Expect manual, and browsed the web, but I 
> cannot
> find any reference to disabling the timeout in an Expect script.  I am
> writing a script which may need to sit and wait for many hours or even
> days for a response without timing out.  Barring some way to disable
> the timeout, what is the maximum value which can be set for the
> timeout?
> 
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check out 
http://oreilly.com/catalog/expect/chapter/ch03.html

it looks like a timeout value of -1 will tell it to wait forever

hope this helps

-mike


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