Thanks alot Brian. I went to the link you posted and I am definately interested in the code. Do you have any code examples you can post? thanks jackster Brian Candler wrote: > Not a direct answer, but I found the Net::SSH API too cumbersome to use > and so I wrote Net::SSH::Telnet, which was in turn tidied up and > released by Matthew Kent. > > This gives you an API which is more-or-less drop-in compatible with > Net::Telnet. > > http://rubyforge.org/projects/net-ssh-telnet/ -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.