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   <li><a href="#renameexts">RenameExtensions</a></li>
   <li><a href="#script">Script</a></li>
   <li><a href="#vssget">VssGet</a></li>
+  <li><a href="#telnet">Telnet</a></li>
 </ul>
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 <h2><a name="cab">Cab</a></h2>
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 which are labeled <i>Release1</i> and write them to the local directory
 <i>C:\mysrc\myproject</i>. The local files will be writable.</p>
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+
+<h2><a name="telnet">Telnet</a></h2>
+<h3>Description</h3>
+Task to automate a remote telnet session. The task uses nested &lt;read&gt; to indicate strings to wait for, and  &lt;write&gt; tags to specify text to send.  
+
+<p>If you do specify a userid and password, the system will assume a common unix prompt to wait on. This behavior can be easily over-ridden.</p>
+<h3>Parameters</h3>
+<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
+  <tr>
+    <th>Attribute</th>
+    <th>Values</th>
+    <th>Required</th>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+     <td>userid</td>
+     <td>the login id to use on the telnet server.</td>
+     <td>No</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+     <td>password</td>
+     <td>the login password to use on the telnet server.</td>
+     <td>No</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+     <td>server</td>
+     <td>the address of the remote ftp server.</td>
+     <td>Yes</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+     <td>port</td>
+     <td>the port number of the remote ftp server. Defaults to port 21.</td>
+     <td>No</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+     <td>initialCR</td>
+     <td>send a cr after connecting ("yes"). Defaults to "no".</td>
+     <td>No</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+     <td>timeout</td>
+     <td>set a default timeout to wait for a response. Specified in seconds. Default is no timeout.</td>
+     <td>No</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+<h3>Examples</h3>
+A simple example of connecting to a server and running a command.  This assumes a prompt of "ogin:" for the userid, and a prompt of "ssword:" for the password.
+<blockquote><pre>
+&lt;telnet userid=&quot;bob&quot; password=&quot;badpass&quot; server=&quot;localhost&quot;&gt;
+   &lt;read&gt;/home/bob&lt;/read&gt;
+   &lt;write&gt;ls&lt;/read&gt;
+   &lt;read string=&quot;/home/bob&quot;/&gt;
+&lt;/telnet&gt;
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+This task can be rewritten as:
+<blockquote><pre>
+&lt;telnet server=&quot;localhost&quot;&gt;
+   &lt;read&gt;ogin:&lt;/read&gt;
+   &lt;write&gt;bob&lt;/read&gt;
+   &lt;read&gt;ssword:&lt;/read&gt;
+   &lt;write&gt;badpass&lt;/read&gt;
+   &lt;read&gt;/home/bob&lt;/read&gt;
+   &lt;write&gt;ls&lt;/read&gt;
+   &lt;read&gt;/home/bob&lt;/read&gt;
+&lt;/telnet&gt;
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+A timeout can be specified at the &lt;telnet&gt; level or at the &lt;read&gt; level. This will connect, issue a sleep command that is suppressed from displaying and wait 10 seconds before quitting.
+<blockquote><pre>
+&lt;telnet userid=&quot;bob&quot; password=&quot;badpass&quot; server=&quot;localhost&quot; timeout=&quot;20&quot;&gt;
+   &lt;read&gt;/home/bob&lt;/read&gt;
+   &lt;write echo=&quot;false&quot;&gt;sleep 15&lt;/read&gt;
+   &lt;read timeout=&quot;10&quot;&gt;/home/bob&lt;/read&gt;
+&lt;/telnet&gt;
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+The task can be used with other ports as well:
+<blockquote><pre>
+&lt;telnet userid=&quot;bob&quot; password=&quot;badpass&quot; server=&quot;localhost&quot; defaultTimeout=&quot;20&quot;&gt;
+   &lt;read/&gt;
+   &lt;write&gt;GET / http/0.9&lt;/read&gt;
+   &lt;write/&gt;
+   &lt;read timeout=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;/HTML&amp;gt;&lt;/read&gt;
+&lt;/telnet&gt;
+</pre></blockquote>
+<hr>
 <h2><a name="buildevents">Build Events</a></h2>
 Ant is capable of generating build events as it performs the tasks necessary to build a project. 
 Listeners can be attached to ant to receive these events. This capability could be used, for example,