At 8:13 PM -0700 6/18/02, Ranga Nathan wrote: >Remember the good old VT100, VT220 etc? I am revisiting them in my time >machine. I need to capture output from VT220, interpret the control >characters and extract information via Net::Telnet. I need to distinguish >text from the escape sequences, identify user input in user-enterable fields >and translate all this to a web page.
There are certainly products that do this for the TN3270. Not sure about VT220. You might try a search for "screen scraping". I don't know if anyone has ever done anything source-available, but it's worth a shot. -- Kee Hinckley - Somewhere.Com, LLC http://consulting.somewhere.com/ I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.
