Hello! I've always used Telnet for all my MUD needs, but it occured to me that I could spruce this up a little bit.

What I'd like to do is put an additional layer in between Telnet and me: Basically, it would be a perl script which takes my input, does whatever I want to it (substitute predefined strings with a long command, for example) and return the output (after, say, putting all instances of my name in red or something), ready to take more.

I've learned enough perl by now to handle the regexes and so forth. What I need help with is talking to telnet. Can I both send input to and receive output from Telnet simultaneously, or must it be back-and-forth one way? I'm willing to settle for half-duplex if nothing else.

Anyone?

Thank you!