got some help on this...sharing it with you.

my friend says we should try duping the descriptors so

that the forked process containing the telnet command

can be controlled by us...pass the rest of the commands

starting from line7 to the duped descriptor which takes input from STDIN

but me doesnt know how to work with descriptors

will do some R&D on it today

u could try it out too..;)

and ofcourse let me know abt it

thanks a lot

shamala

For your and your friend's approach, look into http://IPC::Open2, and maybe to Expect.pm for Unixy systems.

But for telnet, I'd bypass the external commands and use Net::Telnet. The relevant chapter in Lincoln Stein's book Network Programming with Perl is online.

No, I won't do your work for you.

And if you keep listening to your friend rather than reading the manual (perlipc), you'll waste a lot of time. But that's your problem, not mine.

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Jeremy
I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.

oh no..i definitely dont want you to do my work...and abt the problem its only if you did my work for me... thanks anyways.