Thread: Help - system(telnet) on WinXP (ssh too)

I'm beginning to think that Mikey has 'chosen' C already, and is looking for validation for that decision. Certainly, any attempt to suggest any of the alternatives is met with back peddling.

C might be giving you the most progress on day 1, but it is far from the ideal choice for the whole project.

None of your "problem" needs any of the capabilities of C (the low level kind of stuff), it's all string bashing of one sort or another or managing running various external programs. This puts you into expect or perl territory.

Unless you're seriously considering that this will only take 'a few days', then some time to at least more thoroughly research alternatives (more than a few hours) could be time well spent.
You did say 'months' in an earlier post.

Try as a trivial exercise - should take no more than a day for all 4.
Take the output of "ls" and find all the "file.c" files. Do a "wc -l file.c" on each one of them, then "gcc -c file.c" on the one with the most lines.
Try it in
- C
- perl
- bash
- expect

> I should point out again that I am not a 'programmer' per se
Then you really ought to give this more consideration then
"It would be more likely for me to get a PO approved for someone to write what I need than spend months doing it."