Telnet automation

[SimonA]

I need to write a C program to telnet into a device, and read information from the device.
Can anyone tell me if there are any good tools which I can use?

Thanks a lot

[ghostdog74]

why write another program ? if your telnet client supports scripting, then you can write a script to do that. If you know Perl, you can use the Net::Telnet module. Search google for Net::Telnet and see some examples