Thank you so much. WWW::Mechanize::Shell was just the tool I needed. And thanks to whoever pointed me at the SuperSearch tool here. It helped me search through a tremendous backlog of wisdom and experience in my quest. In fact, it got me here.

I was running out of developed perl options I had yet found when I started to read about python's twill-shell. Installed it even (at the cost of a trusted library) and had played around with it. Was imagining using it for the tests I couldn't figure out with Test::More, when I found this post.

I'm still checking out ethereal. Need to spend more time with its docs to get a clue, I guess. But it certainly looks promising.

Even wrote an enthusiastic email about this module to my coding buddies.

Thanks again.

-- Hugh