SUMMARY: Non-interactive telnet solution?

From: Fletcher B. Cocquyt (fletch@ttmc.com)
Date: Wed Feb 12 1997 - 11:38:56 CST

Original question:

> I have a need to do a non-interactive telnet session from
> a sun to a non-sun router type box. Basically I'd like to script
> a telnet session from the sun to the router.
> Does Solaris 2.5's telnet daemon provide this non-interactive
> functionality? If not, is there a replacement daemon that can be run
> to accept scripts.

Everyone recommended "expect" which according to the homepage, is a
"tool for automating interactive applications such as ftp, telnet..."

http://expect.nist.gov/

Thanks to:

jafar@finance.capital.ge.com (Jafar Shameem)
drk@spec.mda.uth.tmc.edu (Darrell Kachilla)
jeffw@smoe.org (Jeff Wasilko)
Daniel Baker <dbaker@hobbes.cuckoo.com>
"Mark `Hex' Hershberger" <mah@eecs.tulane.edu>
"Trevor Paquette" <tpaquett@aec.ca> 

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