Requests often arrive for the magic needed to get Expect to control more(1) or a similar pager so as to see a "whole report" automatically, and not have to step through the screens the pager affords. These pleas are often mistaken, in the sense that most report generators and/or pagers have what amounts to a show-it-all mode, and so don't require Expect's blessings.
As a model of the value of exp_continue, though, this problem is valuable. An example solution follows.
[Explain context, how it illustrates use of exp_continue, how pagers themselves usually afford enough programmatic control that Expect is overkill, how "pager" hear means something like "more" or "less", not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager , ...]
package require Expect set more_prompt "--More-- or (q)uit" set more_prompt %) set go_ahead_reply " " set example_textfile /etc/passwd log_user 0 spawn more $example_textfile expect -- $more_prompt {send $go_ahead_reply puts "The current display is in exp_out(buffer)." exp_continue } eof { puts "That's the end." } timeout { puts "This is strange." }