So now, the powers that be have declared that Telnet shall no longer be an option on these unix servers

Their concern is surely unencrypted communication over the wire. Could you convince them to still run the telnet server, but only accept connections from localhost? That addresses their concern, and opens the simple solution of creating a ssh tunnel using putty or whatever. 

+--------------------+   +--------------------+
|                    |   |                    |
|     +--------+     |   |     +--------+     |
|     | Perl   |     |   |     | Telnet |     |
|     | script |     |   |     | server |     |
|     +--------+     |   |     +--------+     |
|         |          |   |         ^          |
|         v          |   |         |          |
|     +--------+     |   |     +--------+     |
|     | Tunnel |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>| Tunnel |     |
|     +--------+     |   |     +--------+     |
|                    |   |                    |
+--------------------+   +--------------------+

~ = encrypted

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Try as we did, we could not get the necessary modules to install on our antiquated equipment

It's not clear to me which machine can and can't do what. I would also like to know their OS. (Don't need specifics; Windows vs unix should do.)

In reply to Re: Making a shell work like a Net::Telnet session by ikegami
in thread Making a shell work like a Net::Telnet session by pbwiz1970

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