As you've discovered, telnet does not accept inital command line strings to run upon login (although some accept an argument to run a remote script file). The CLI docs indicate that for Unixy platforms, you can use STDIN. This is not supported under Windows.
You'll need to write your VBA code to launch telnet, connect, and then enter the commands as encoded strings (as per the CLI tech reference indicated earlier in this post) after the login has succeeded. Have your podcast downloader call your script with the proper arguments. You could also do similar with the Perl module Net::Telnet at : http://search.cpan.org/~jrogers/Net-Telnet-3.03/lib/Net/Telnet.pm which might prove even easier. -- MrC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26293 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
