telnet-in-bg   [plain text]

# Start telnet and when you press ^Z, put telnet in background and save any
# remaining output in "telnet.log".  You can actually apply this technique
# to any interactive program - I just chose telnet here.

# Author: Don Libes, NIST, 1/5/95

spawn -ignore HUP telnet $argv		;# start telnet
interact \032 return			;# interact until ^Z

if [fork] exit				;# disconnect from terminal
disconnect

set log [open logfile w]		;# open logfile
expect -re .+ {				;# and record everything to it
	puts -nonewline $log $expect_out(buffer)
	exp_continue
}