Telnet from WinXP

[Brian_213]

I have been trying to Telnet from a Windows XP machine using a .bat file and a .txt file, example of the command in the .bat file I have been using is below.

telnet 192.168.0.58 < toDo.txt

However when I go to execute this command all that is returned is the following while none of the command that are in the .txt file are done:

Welcome to Mircrosoft Telnet Client
Escape Character is 'CTRL+]'

then gives me the C: prompt again, however when I go 'telnet 192.168.0.58' I get prompted for the username and then password and not that Welcome to MS Telnet stuff.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated

Thanks

[Zafar A. Mohammed_1]

Is that you want to run some scripts/jobs on telnet host? If you want to run in batch mode telnet i.e. without issuing Username and Password, then use Perl module Net::Telnet.

Thanks
Zafar

[Brian_213]

Perl is not an option, I need to telnet to the linux machine from a winXP machine using .bat files and .txt files that would be on the winXP machine in order to access the linux machine, which has username and password

Thanks

[Jon Finley]

XP's telnet client is NOT really intellegent.

You would need to use something like TeraTerm or TTwin.

But... you could try the following:

create a user on the linux system whose shell is the script you want to run.

You successfully login, your script runs, the ls=ast command is an exit which forces a logoff/disconnect of the client.

Jon

[Massimo Bianchi]

To do that you must install expect for windows, or perl for windows.

telnet in windows has not the same flexibility as on unix world..

Massimo

[Antoniov.]

Hi Brian,

I'm using Pathwork32 of HP OpenVMS suite that's containts PowerTerm emulator. This software that you can found in Ericom Ltd (http://ericom.com) is the best VT emulator running over any Windows OS, MAC, WBT (Windows Based Terminal) and Handled Device.
PowerTerm runs a simple scripting language; I used this to connect to a server and transfer information from/to it.

Remember when you execute telenet ... < ToDo.txt when input file ToDo.txt ended, telnet session has not more a input device so working very bad and can crash.
PowerTerm permit you open a session and continue using keyboard either complete session work.

HTH
Antoniov