# Connecting via Net::Telnet

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 3, 2006, 7:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/connecting-via-net-telnet/56060 "2006-01-03T07:52:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 7:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/connecting-via-net-telnet/56060/1 "2006-01-03T07:52:35Z")

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Thanks for all the suggestions in the previous email about getting  
started. I looked at a lot of resources today and thought I would  
just get started. 🙂

The first thing I have to do is get connected and logged in. However  
[nethack.alt.org](http://nethack.alt.org) doesn’t use a traditional telnet login prompt. it  
uses a menu displayed with a =\> prompt waiting for user input. So  
here is what I have so far. it does connect 🙂 but I can’t get logged  
in

`
require 'net/telnet'

Telnet into the Nethack server and login

The Nethack server doesn’t have a traditional telnet login. It used
a "=> " prompt where you enter

a letter from a menu displayed

`

`host = Net::Telnet::new(“Host” => “nethack.alt.org”,
“Port” => 23,
“Timeout” => 10) { |str| print str }
host.telnetmode=true
host.waitfor(‘=>’) { |str| print str }
host.puts(“l”) { |str| print str }
`

Here is the output:

E:\Ruby\mkNethackbot\>ruby mkNethackbot.rb Trying nethack.alt.org... Connected to nethack.alt.org. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 zaphod.alt.org Error opening terminal: network. c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/telnet.rb:551:in `waitfor': timed out while waiting for more data (Timeout::Error) from mkNethackbot.rb:20

I found the code “{ |str| print str }” on another site using Ruby’s  
net/telnet, but I don’t yet know exactly what it means, but I think it  
waits for any strings sent ( |str |) and then displays it ( print str  
).

Thanks,  
Will

–  
Will S. ( [willshattuck.at.gmail.com](http://willshattuck.at.gmail.com) )  
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