[plug] .telnetrc or Expect for telnet automation?

[Andrew Howell]

On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 01:30:12PM +0800, Peter Caffin wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> The man page for telnet seems to imply that you can set up a .telnetrc
> file to automate a telnet session (much like .netrc does with ftp).
> However, I haven't been able to find any documentation on the WWW
> regarding this. Does anyone have a URL?
> 
> Something else I've seen mentioned is Expect, which appears to be a more
> general scripting program for "interactive" scripting. If I can't find
> info on .telnetrc, I'll probably go down this path.. but I'd prefer not to.

I had to do this the other day and didn't find .telnetrc could actually
submit a password from my quick look, I ended up using expect.

Andrew

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