Sorry Corion ... not used to the chatterbox yet. I cannot use ssh or rsh, as this is a straight telnet session to a closed source system. I understand that I can use Net::Telnet or IO:Socket. It is the 'text capture' part that has me stumped (very new to perl - sorry). I only need to start the capture when I issue the command to start the report, then turn it off and write to the file, after the report is complete. Will either of the two mods you mentioned above also handle this capture or is there something else I will need? Thank you.

In reply to Re^2: Telnet & Text Capture to file by sonicscott9041
in thread Telnet & Text Capture to file by sonicscott9041

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