SUMMARY: automate tasks with telnet or somthg. similar

Hi,
first of all, thank you very very much for your responses.
Most people pointed me to use expect for this task.
The problem I had, was to learn a new language (if can call language to it),
but after a closer look, expect seems to be easy.
I have got some examples from you which are very usable for my intents.
Another way seems to be ant. My opinion about ant was that it is just a
replacement to "make"
but sure, I am wrong, I will try this to.

Again, thank you all.


I have got responses from:

Philip Plane
Pete Geenhuizen
Russell Page
Alan Pae
Anthony A. D. Talltree
Green Ben
Harry Hoffman
Rob De Langhe
Ashish Nabira
Mahesh Gurugunti
Ashish Nabira


Special thanks to:

Emmanuel Guisse (for the recup_config_vmsa.conf and recup_config_vmsa.sh
files)
Vincent Ribeaud (for his script)

Cheers

Ramiro Santos