Ok, found a much simpler way to do this, not using expect. Oh we,, but I did learn a lot playing around with expect. The only drawback is that I haven't found a way from the command line or the nfbtrans.cnf file to have a wild card for the output file; you can use *.brf for your input file but all those files will be written together to one *.txt file. So I did the following: (1) added or edited the following in /usr/local/lib/nfbtrans.cnf # set translation mode to back-translate by default tm=3 # automatic .txt output file for .brf input file on=2 # eliminates prompt for a file being overwritten ow=1 # stops most progress output; shows current output file qm=1 Then I ran the following short script: for i in *.brf do nfbtrans $i done exit 0 -- Cheryl
