I'm not sure what info is relevant here, so this may be a little verbose. I am trying to use Net::Telnet from:

perl, v5.8.0 built for sun4-solaris
SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250

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to

HP-UX B.11.11 U 9000/800 (tc)

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with the simple script

my $t = new Net::Telnet (Timeout => 30, Prompt => '/[:\$%#>]  $/');
$t->input_log(\*STDOUT);
$t->telnetmode(1);
$t->open($hostip);
$t->login($user, $pass);

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Logon works. My problem is that after logon, the expected prompt doesn't show up in the input (which is the output of the remote server). Rather, I get a strange escape sequence like:

.^[ i^M ... ^M.^[* ... ^MTERM = (hp)

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I'm supposing this is a control stream, but I can't find any reference to handling them in Net::Telnet except for telnetmode() which I explicitly turn on. (Turning it off causes logon to fail.) Prompt on the remote host is '$'.

Anyone see what I'm doing wrong, or how I can workaround the problem? TIA!

P.S. I would try Expect, but unfortunately it is not available everywhere I need to use this.

--Solo
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In reply to Net::Telnet problem w/ escape sequences (control stream?) by Solo

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