telnet support

[Guest M4031]

I am newby with Autoit and trying to write a script that launches a telnet session to a device (managed via TL1) and issues a set of commands and captures the output responses to a text file. I tried using DOS and hyperterminal and neither one seems to give good results.

Here is the hyperterminal version (it would get stuck in the WinWaitActive statement; very strange - it works the first time it was launched but then hangs up on second attempts)

Run("C:\Program Files\Windows NT\hypertrm.exe /t 10.51.17.47")

Sleep(2000)

Send("{ALT T C}")

WinWaitActive("Capture Text","Folder:")

Send("test" &{TAB 2}&{ENTER}")

Sleep(5000)

Send("ACT-USER::USERID::****;",0) ; TL1 command to log into device

Send("RTRV-INV-EQPT::ALL;",0) ; TL1 command to retrieve inventory

Send("RTRV-T1::ALL;",0) ; TL1 command to retrieve facility information

Winkill()

I'm not particular to any application (DOS, or hyperterminal works for me). I'm running on Windows NT.

Any suggestions or ideas on to capture device responses from a telnet session?

[flyingboz]

Any suggestions or ideas on to capture device responses from a telnet session?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The Kermit Project at Columbia University - Kermit 95 for Windows. The swiss army knife of terminal emulators - cheap and fully scriptable. If you want to kludge something together w/ hyperterm /putty or command line telnet fine... if you're interested in building production quality terminal emulation scripts, look no farther than kermit. At less than $60 for a single user license it's a bargain at any price.

Of course, if you want to write your own terminal emulator, with the new tcp* functions floating around, you could write a telnet client from scratch in 'pure' au3.

[Guest M4031]

I'm not interested in purchasing kermit.

Are there any other DOS programs or au3 scripts that might help me.

[DaleHohm]

There have been a couple of threads about capturing telnet output about a month ago... try searching the forum...

There is one here: Need help reading an emulator where DaveF points to "Console Telnet" on SourceForge.

Dale

[LxP]

Are you sure that this line works as expected? --

Send("{ALT T C}")
; should be...?
Send("!tc")

[MSLx Fanboy]

You can just create a TCP Connection via the telnet port (23?)...