Dsline to your own machine and log on again as a session from the job. Do
the telnet and then log off the session and then close the dsline.

James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Ted Johnson
> Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 11:04 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Telnet from a Batch Job
>
>
> One of our programmers is trying to create a batch job that as the last
> step will open a Telnet session to a NT machine.  Once this telnet
> session is open the NT machine will start doing a related process.  The
> problem is that we are not able to get telnet to work properly in a
> batch job.   We are either getting the following message..
>
>  :TELNET 'xxxxxxxxxxxx.WFU.EDU xxxx'
>  Sorry, this program cannot be run from a job.
>  :EOJ
>
> If we change the line to
>
> ::TELNET xxxxxxxxxx.WFU.EDU xxxx
>
> then the telnet session executes first....before the FTP commands at the
> beginning of the batch job.
>
> We tried moving the telnet commands to a different batch job and having
> the first batch job stream the second batch job but it again executed
> the telnet
> command first.
>
> I know there has got to be a simple answer to this but right now it is
> escaping me.
>
> TIA,
>
> Ted
>
>
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