Re: Accessing another system's TELNET port from a batch job?

["James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wrote:
> Both Mark Waterbury and Bryan Dietz directed me to:
> > the TNAPI that Albert York wrote. there is a copy here:
> > http://www.think400.dk/downloads.htm

Unfortunately, there seems to be something wrong with at least the 
version of TNAPI that's on think400.dk (dated 7/12/2007); in my tests, 
it seems to be extremely slow, and less than 50% reliable (besides 
which, the way it's set up, you have to either play around with 
sethostid/gethostid, or you have to do a TN session within a TN session).

Fortunately, as it turns out, our FTP ports are as well protected from 
the outside world as our TN ports, and so there's no longer any reason 
to keep the ones on the boxes I'm trying to reach shut down. And sending 
the necessary commands through an FTP port is absurdly simple and 
completely reliable.

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JHHL