Oh wise monks, stop the voices in my head, I beg of you.
My problem :
Establish a telnet connection to a device's alarming port. Change the mode of the alarming connection from 'GUI' to clear text (i.e. no control characters creating garbage in the data stream). This is done by pressing F-11 in a simple telnet session. According to xev, F-11 = "\0xffc8". Now, how does one pass this via perl using Net::Telnet?

Solution (or beginnings thereof):
sub openport{
my ($name,$ip,$port)= @_ ;
    print "Connecting to $name @ $ip:$port  " if $debug > 1;
    my $nameport = $name.$port;
    $$nameport = new Net::Telnet (Timeout => 120);
    $$nameport->errmode("return");
    $$nameport->open(Host => $ip,
                 Port => $port);
    if (($error = $$nameport->errmsg) ne ""){
        return $error;
    } else {
        return "OK";
        # Now we send F-11 change the session to clear text.
        $$nameport->cmd("[Here's the problem]");
    }
}

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$$nameport->cmd needs to emmulate the F-11 keystroke. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

In reply to Out of control in Net::Telnet by Lonny

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