I'm trying to interface with a mainframe which I have telnet access to, the problem is that the interface is a curses-based program. For instance the login screen looks a bit like:
Warning, this system is for authorized....
...
..
*********..
* Userid:
* Password: 
*********
telnetting as a specific user doesn't work.

Everything is menu based. I'm trying to connect to a little phone book, but when I get into that program, you have to scroll down through names and when you get to a name that you want info for, you hit enter which brings up another page with the user info.

Is there any way that I can do this? Would expect allow me to do this? Would I be able to parse the info that I want from the screen and scroll through names? Ultimately I'd like to have a script on the Unix side that is called, with a last name, I then telnet to this machine, login, get to the phone list, find that name, pull all of the relevant info, and then return that to the user, formatted. Any ideas?

In reply to Interfacing with menus by BastardOperator

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