1. log into my ISP via Telnet with a specified username and PW.
2. send 1 string.
3. exit

I have to have this process run invisible to the user because:
a) I don't wish to share the pw, I'd rather hard code it.
b) Once on the server, I'm not crazy about them "experimenting".

Unless I can figure out how to establish this telnet session through
VB6 and its included controls, I will have to subclass an existing
Telnet client to intercept all user keystrokes while the session is
active. That sure seems like a backwards way of doing it.

I have searched the MSKB for Telnet and VB and came up dry. TIA to
anyone who can point me to an example of a simple Telnet session run
through VB.

the winsock control in VB5 can do this easily enough so I assume VB6's
version will do so as well.  Telnet is usually port 23 so use that for
.RemotePort --- if the server you are connecting to uses another port you'll
need to find out what that is.  After that it's monitoring DataArrival
events and using SendData methods.

I have made my VB telnet client openly available at

http://www.fastlane.net/~storrs/video/telnet.zip

The sample also includes VT52/VT100/ANSI emulation,
that part you can probably skip.

Regards,
Ian Storrs

http://www.fastlane.net/~storrs/

Sincerely,
Ray Eastham
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