Very Computer

   #!/bin/ksh
   .
   .
   .
   telnet << !
   set escape ^x
   mode char
   open 123.123.123.123
   !
   .
   .
   .
   Control of telnet session handed to user so that he/she can continue as
if they had put these commands in by hand.

Cheers,

Alan Rowe.

PS. I am running HP-UX 9.04.
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You want 'Expect', a public-domain scripting language that spawns programs
and can interact with them via 'expect' and 'send' commands.  It's based on
Tcl, and available at the Tcl archive:  (I think!)
          ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com:/tcl

There's also an O'Reily book, "Exploring Expect" (or something like that)
written by the author.

Good luck -Joachim
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Quote:> #!/usr/sww/bin/expect -f

> set relay gateway.smith.com

> set timeout 60
> set env(TERM) vt100
> log_user 0

> spawn telnet $relay
> expect {
>         "*>" {
>                 send "connect $argv\r"
>                 interact
>         }
> }