console-scraping

I'm looking to screen scrape a 3270 mainframe application in C#, but I've got to do so without Attachmate or other 3rd party plugins. Are there free managed libraries to do so in C#? http://www.elink.ibmlink.ibm.com/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?CTY=US&FNC=SRX&PBL=GA23-0059-07 This is the document you are looking for if you plan on doing all of the heavy lifting yourself. It doesn't print out well but is the best source of information on the protocol. I am about to embark on this road myself (thanks to the federal government) and in less than two weeks I intend to have a completed application.

Background Part of my work in networking and telco involves automating telnet sessions when legacy hardware doesn't offer easy solutions in other interfaces. Many older pieces of equipment can only be accessed via craft ports (RS-232 serial ports), SNMP, or telnet. Sometimes telnet is the only way to access specific information, however telnet is designed as a human interface and thus requires screen scraping. In addition, there is also the issue of scraping screens where only portions are updated in order to save bandwidth (see ncurses ). In my work I have used ActiveState Expect and the