Well, this isn't really the place for expect questions. You might try
the expect home page or FAQ at http://www.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect
> I could not have succeded reading from standart input.
> In any language, it is something like below
> Please enter you name :
> read name
> echo $name...............
>
> But in tcl, as far as I see there is not any command like read
> I tried
> exec read name
> puts $name
> and also
> set name [exec read dummy]
> puts $name
> they both did not work
> I am sure I am misssing a very simple point, sorry again for
>these simple question
> Kind ragards
> kadir
>
If you are using expect, then the command is expect
e.g.
expect {Please enter} {send "$name"}
check out the man page. it has several good examples.
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