Cross platform solution for automating ncurses-type telnet sessions

Question

Background

Part of my work in networking and telco involves automating telnet sessions when legacy hardware doesn\'t offer easy solutions in other i

Answer 1

Take a look at demos/Expect/term_expect in the ActiveTcl distribution. It emulates a cursor-addressable terminal and allows you to test output at specific screen locations. Check out the example screen-scraping code at the end of the file.