telnet without sendkeys

hi
i wish to telnet to a unix server, execute some commands and get the
results onto excel range. I have tried opening telnet application using
sendkeys but its not what i want. Any other ways or some Active X
controls that might let me do this task?
thanks

either get yourself an windows based telnet client that supports
automation... just find some shareware you like.

OR..use batchfile approach:

eg.
excel creates batchfile.
excel starts batchfile

batchfile start telnet
telnet create a results/logfile
batchfile create done.txt

excel waiting for done.txt in delayed loop
then process the resultsfile.



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[email protected] wrote :

> hi
> i wish to telnet to a unix server, execute some commands and get the
> results onto excel range. I have tried opening telnet application
> using sendkeys but its not what i want. Any other ways or some Active
> X controls that might let me do this task?
> thanks

You can possibly use the Windows API to control Telnet - there are commands
to activate windows and to access the menus, etc. but it would take quite a
bit of advanced programming to get it to work. For more information you can
refer here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...y_category.asp

"[email protected]" wrote:

> hi
> i wish to telnet to a unix server, execute some commands and get the
> results onto excel range. I have tried opening telnet application using
> sendkeys but its not what i want. Any other ways or some Active X
> controls that might let me do this task?
> thanks
>
>