If you use Perl to manage interactive sessions with with the command-line interfaces of networked appliances, then you might find this module useful. Net::Appliance::Phrasebook is a simple module that contains a number of dictionaries for the command-line interfaces of some popular network appliances. It also supports the use of custom phrasebooks, and of hiearchies of dictionaries within phrasebooks. WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-Appliance-Phrasebook/