07-20-2016
Ah, I think I see. 'export' is a shell command, not an expect one.
I think for expect/TCL it's something like
setenv PATH "/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin"
The TH= does not belong in PATH and I'm not sure what it was intended to do. Neither should PATH entries be repeated like that.
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