I'm trying to interface with a mainframe which I have telnet access to, the problem is that the interface is a curses-based program. For instance the login screen looks a bit like:

Warning, this system is for authorized....
...
..
*********..
* Userid:
* Password: 
*********

telnetting as a specific user doesn't work.

Everything is menu based. I'm trying to connect to a little phone book, but when I get into that program, you have to scroll down through names and when you get to a name that you want info for, you hit enter which brings up another page with the user info.

Is there any way that I can do this? Would expect allow me to do this? Would I be able to parse the info that I want from the screen and scroll through names? Ultimately I'd like to have a script on the Unix side that is called, with a last name, I then telnet to this machine, login, get to the phone list, find that name, pull all of the relevant info, and then return that to the user, formatted. Any ideas?