Yes, I was just posting the resolution. You are absolutely correct! I just discovered that Solaris 8 likes to have it's responses and commands terminated with \n and not \r. I actually have used \r for connecting to network appliances and never had a problem. What threw me off was I sent the user login password as "$passw\r" and it worked ok. I have updated all my send commands to use \n instead of \r. All is well now. Thanks!!