[comp.archives] [list.sun-nets] telnet question

rusty@belch.Berkeley.EDU (Rusty Wright) (01/17/91)

Archive-name: unix/shell/expect/1991-01-16
Archive: durer.cme.nist.gov:/pub/expect.shar.Z [129.6.32.4]
Original-posting-by: rusty@belch.Berkeley.EDU (Rusty Wright)
Original-subject: telnet question
Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti)

Try using 'expect'; you can use anonymous ftp to durer.cme.nist.gov to
get the sources.  With it you won't have to hack telnet but can use
expect as a front end/wrapper to telnet to do what you want.  I'm
using it for exactly what you're trying to do.