From: Will Shattuck <willshattuck@...>
Date: 2006-01-05T15:24:08+09:00
Subject: Net::Telnet and sysread()

I'm trying establish a telnet connection to nethack.alt.org.  I canget a connection but Net::Telnet cannot seem to handle the output.  Inreading net/telnet.rb I found out about IO#sysread so i put thislittle tnet.rb file together
require 'net/telnet'
print("\n")tn = Net::Telnet.new(	'Host'		=> 'nethack.alt.org',	'Timeout'	=> 10,	'Telnetmode'	=> true) { |str| print str }
input = tn.sysread(1024 * 1024)print("\nDisplaying Output\n	")print(input)

Now when I connect here is the output that is displayed:E:\Ruby\mkNethackbot>ruby tnet.rb
Trying nethack.alt.org...Connected to nethack.alt.org.
Displaying Output         ���� ��  ��# ��'E:\Ruby\mkNethackbot>
As you can see from the "Displaying Output" section the data thatnethack.alt.org is sending doesn't seem readable by Net::Telnet. nethack.alt.org appears to use a scripted login instead of a standardlogin/password prompt.
Any ideas?
Thanks,Will



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