Oops, I thought I replied to the list but only replied to Yaron.

 

I had several issues that caused problems when we upgraded from Expect
for Window NT 5.21 to the latest ActiveTcl/Expect.; in our scripts we
were spawning cmd.exe then having that process run telnet.exe.

 

1)       Original dbghelp.dll from M$ 'faulty'
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/expect/3117206 

2)       DEP causes conflict
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/expect/3560243 

3)       ActiveTcl/Expect can not 'see' an executed program's output
from a spawned process (i.e. Expect spawns cmd.exe then cmd.exe executes
another program. Expect only sees cmd.exe's output)
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/expect/3472932 

 

Sounds like #3 isn't a problem but maybe #1 will help?

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Peryanty
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 7:41 AM
To: Virden, Larry W.; expect@[...].com
Subject: Re: [Expect] exp_spawn failed on Windows 2003 with
DEP(DataExecutionPrevention)
Importance: Low

 

The DEP prevents my script from running.

It seems to be the Expect problem.

 

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Larry W.
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 5:39 PM
To: expect@[...].com
Subject: Re: [Expect] exp_spawn failed on Windows 2003 with DEP
(DataExecutionPrevention)

 

Is the DEP being caused by Expect, or by plink?

 

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Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 10:32 AM
To: expect@[...].com
Subject: [Expect] exp_spawn failed on Windows 2003 with DEP (Data
ExecutionPrevention)

Hi,

 

I have a small script that spawn a plink.exe which fails in Windows
2003. After some investigation I found out that the DEP (data execution
prevention) causes the problem.

According to what I found across the net the workaround is to disable
DEP or add the executable to the list of executables which DEP doesn't
handle.

This is not so good for me since the DEP should be enabled on all
applications.

 

Is there a solution for this problem? Maybe a newer TCL version?

 

 

Thanks a lot,

Yaron