how to mimic cursor movement in a Perl script

Hi, I am try to automate a analysis process, In which I used a windows box to telnet a UNIX box and do the job on the telnet consol. I need to use move the cursor down or up and also need to use Control key plus a certain cahracter key to do the operation. Ideally I sould type a few characters

script to mimic the cusor movement on a terminer or shell

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w # I have a program with a several # screens of menus, which # needs me to move the cursor to # make choice, then hit the # control plus n key to move # to next screen. I tried to use # this script to automate # the process, but it failed. # What is the problem he

RE: script to mimic the cusor movement on a terminer or shell

Thanks! It did not work. I guess I have to figure out how the program was programed in order to automate it using perl. Dan Muey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Well it depends. Is this script on windows or unix? I'm thinking unix due to the program name. Can you do the same thing via the command li