[plug] .telnetrc or Expect for telnet automation?

[Peter Caffin]

8~On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 cthart at gbs.com.au wrote:
> Surely some variable like REMOTEHOST will be set?
> In the .bashrc or .cshrc of the remote machine check
> where that's coming from and stty erase appropriately.

Hmmm. No idea. But this gave me a good idea, though.
In the SCO box's ~/.profile (or ~/.kshrc or whatever), I added:

 LBKSP=^? # That was the character I got when pressing the
          # backspace key.

And in the expect script, I added:

 send "stty erase \$LBKSP\n"

Absurdly easy! And it worked :).

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