Group,
I have been trying for several days to figure out the telnet protocol 
with for use in a custome application, but without any luck. Here is a 
brief description of what I am trying to do, and what I have tried.

I am trying to write an application that will run on a sharp Zaurus, 
telnet to a local machine, execute some commands and then close the 
connection. I am developing this on a Redhat 9 box, in c++ and 
xcompiling for the Zaurus.

I have found a few examples and source of telnet applications that I 
can compile and get working for the Redhat platform, but they won't 
compile with the arm-linux-g++ compiler.

I have read lots of RFC's and tried to go back into the code of these 
working applications that I have found to figure out what the telnet 
protocol is, but I am afraid it's above my head.

I am able to write an application that does the following.
- open a socket to port 23 on the remote machine from the Zaurus.
- The remote machine reports that a telnet session has started in the 
messages  log file.
- then I try to send my userID and password, but nothing appears in the 
log of the host machine, however I do get some odd looking characters 
returned to the Zaurus. (yyp#!ypy##.....)  This is where I need help.

If I could get a simple example of a telnet handshake so I could figure 
out what I am supposed to be sending it, and what I should expect that 
would be great.

Unfortunately I can't use Perl and the net::telnet.

Thanks in advance for any help,
Also, I know this is not exactly the correct list to offer to pay for
help..... But I am
willing to pay for help.

js