launching telnet with scripted pword from browser?

[Shaken Angel]

On Thu, 15 May 1997, Erik Biever wrote:

> 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/

Definitely seconded.  It's what we use here at Miami University on our
UNIX boxen and it works very well.

-- jf