09-09-2005, 05:54 PM

I have a terminal based CMS that I use on a daily basis... I usually load terminal and then have to type the commands to open telnet and login manually. Is there a way to use automator or an applescript to automate that?... Or is there a better terminal/telnet client out there that would automate it for me?

09-09-2005, 06:51 PM

There may be easier ways but:

1) Open a terminal
2) File => Save As (give it a meaningful name)
3) go to the file you just save and open in text editor of choice
4) Scoll down to

<key>ExecutionString</key>
<string></string>

and put the commands you use inside the String tag. Ech command should be separated by a semicolon

Then to launch our CMS use this file rather than terminal.

If that does not provide sufficient flexibility we could go the AppleScript route but it is more complex. (Honestly I don't know how to do it in AS but we could probably figure it out.)

09-09-2005, 07:32 PM

That's EXACTLY what I was looking for... Thanks!

09-09-2005, 07:39 PM

Ok... The semi-colon doesn't seem to be invoking "enter" after each ";"... Do I add another <string></string>?

Edit: Nevermind... I just removed the ";" and put each command on a new line and that seems to have done the trick.

Thanks again!