Telecommunication Scripting Languages?

ronzo asks: "I need to write some scripts/programs that call out to a site (modem), login in, send or receive files using kermit or xmodem. Previously I have done this using a language called db/c and did it all through standard in/out. I want to use a open source solution, because this needs to run on a linux box. I've started looking at perl, but the input/keyin type commands seem a little limiting. Any suggestions or ideas? " I thought some kermit clients had a scripting language that you could use to implement something like this. Althogh this IS possible in Perl, I KNOW something to do this exists so writing something to do this from scratch would more than likely be a waste of time.