launching telnet with scripted pword from browser?

[Erik Biever]

Dave Vose writes:

>On our unix platform, we would like to provide a link to the telnet
>version of FirstSearch from Netscape. Launching telnet alone is simple,
>but we use a login scripts that inserts the required account number and
>password. 

There's a neat little scripting language called Expect that you might want
to look at.  The Expect home page is at:

http://expect.nist.gov/


Erik Biever
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