> Curtis Larsen wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a way to perform *batch* HP3000 client telnet access
> to something?
>
> (I'd even settle for some way to do it in a language -- but most
> scripting languages (incl. Perl/Python) want to use some
> apparently-ubiquitious-on-all-the-other-paltforms system call named
> "select()", which MPE doesn't have.[?])

You can do this in Perl on MPE today.

MPE has select(), and it works on socket descriptors just fine, which is what
your MPE Perl script will be using to talk to port 23 (telnet) on the remote
machine.

- Mark B.