in reply to Attempting to open and pass info to MS Telnet
Have a look at the Win32::GuiTest module. You should be able to start telnet in a new console (system('start telnet');) and then send some keypresses to the console.
You can install the module using PPM:
c:\> ppm install Win32::GuiTest
HTH, Jenda
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