Sorry I wasn't clear. We currently do have a working Perl/telnet script. Due to new security requirements we are moving to SSH. So, not all devices support SSH but will sometime in the future. Therefore I have to have a single script to handle both Telnet and SSH. (Lucky me). As stated, my dinosaur of a boss (he refuses to use new technology such as ZFS on Solaris) wants to "simply" modify the current script to handle both connections using the existing commands.