dwb@hare.cdc.com (dw block x-4621) (05/06/91)
Can I use PERL to control interactive programs such as telnet and ftp. What I am really looking for is a scripting capability similar to what you find in PC communications packages like crosstalk and procomm. Send a command and wait until you get some output back. Then send another command (which could be conditional on what kind of output you got back). If this can be done in PERL, are there any example PERL scripts that show how to do it? ------------------------------------------------------------ Dave Block E-mail: dwb@hare.udev.cdc.com Control Data Corp. AT&T: (612) 482-4621
mstgil@sol (Marc Ph. A. J. St.-Gil) (05/07/91)
You are looking for a perl program called chat2.
Try poking about in comp.lang.perl newsgroup. Perhaps you should
re-post this there?
Cheers
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In article <32922@shamash.cdc.com>, dwb@hare.cdc.com (dw block x-4621) writes: |> Can I use PERL to control interactive programs such as telnet and ftp. What I |> am really looking for is a scripting capability similar to what you find in |> PC communications packages like crosstalk and procomm. Send a command and |> wait until you get some output back. Then send another command (which could |> be conditional on what kind of output you got back). In article <mstgil.673591467@sol>, mstgil@sol (Marc Ph. A. J. St.-Gil) writes: |> You are looking for a perl program called chat2. Another option is the "expect" package, by Don Libes, available at an archive site near you. "Expect" was specifically designed to handle this problem. Of course, I believe someone reimplemented "expect" in perl, and released a version of that in alt.sources as well, so you might want to check the alt.sources archives. -- Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 11 Ashford Terrace jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Allston, MA 02134 Office: 617-253-8085 Home: 617-782-0710