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Interacting with a Telnet Session

I am writing a Windows application that requires work to be done on a Unix box. Is there a way to open a telnet session and interact with that session or is there any other way that I could execute commmands on a UNIX box from a Windows box? Samba is installed on the UNIX machines so copying files is not an issue, just executing commands. Just looking for ideas here.

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UncleJimbo

You can technically just use telnet to execute commands, although this could be cumbersome, depending on the telnet daemon on the remote server, you could find you get strange formatting characters in anything returned (if you want get the output of your commands), and also telnet escape command sequences (the telnet RFC's give details).

An easier way is to use rsh, remote shell, if you have access. It pretty much does the same as you are looking for. "rsh" is a standard command on most linux/unix boxes, and windows XP, not sure if its available on other windows versions though.

Good luck

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Thanks for advice. I have decided to edit files as FlamingSword suggest.