bad gnome-terminal or bad script?

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Marc Williams wrote:

> I've just started exploring the Expect language and have quickly hit a
> little bit of a speed bump.  But I'm not sure it's Expect that's the
> problem.
>
> In an FC3 gnome-terminal, I try to run the following script:
> ----------------------
> #!/usr/bin/expect --
> spawn ssh 192.168.0.9
> expect "word: "
> send "password\r"
> expect "]$ "
> interact
> ----------------------
>
> I don't think it's possible to get any simpler than that.  It completes
> successfully and everything seems to be just fine.  Until I attempt to
> run a command in the newly spawned ssh session that generates a fair
> amount of output such as "ls -la /usr/bin" or cat'ing a larger text
> file.  The output of such a command starts off like normal but before it
> finishes, the output gets "stuck", for lack of a better word.  A few
> screenfuls of output go by and then it simply stops in it's tracks.  The
> output jiggles around a bit in the term window but the output doesn't
> finish.  The cursor seems stuck in place.  I can't Ctrl-c out of it
> either but rather I have to manually kill it.
>
> Does this seem like a gnome-terminal problem or a script problem?  
> Thanks!
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Ive seen this in VC too, so that rules out gnome-terminal, however 
always with SSH, so maybe this is rather an SSH problem.