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Trying to make a small script that waits for a specified text string before sending the next command.

sleep(); is not going to be reliable for this application. I need to make sure the system is ready for the next command before moving on.

Connection is via the dos window telnet or PuTTy.

Unfortuantely Telnet & Putty are not driven by the OS' cmd interpreter (that standard "DOS window"). Both are standard applications (fell free to correct me if I'm wrong).
You can have a try to enable an existing "create log file"-option and read its output in parallel.

You could take a screen shot of the telnet window when the text you want appears, save it as a .bmp image and use the ImageSearch command in a loop to check the telnet window until it matches the image then proceed.

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Try Quick Search for Autohotkey or see the tutorial for newbies.

are you looking for an un-manned script to run on it's own or will somebody be running this script?

i have these type of script jobs (putty and netterm) which are interactive that i use msgbox to get around - but the users are there to click ok. As you said sleep will not work cause sometimes the system is very slow.

MsgBox, , Submit Job, Has the job been submitted? Click OK to continue...

Yeah, this will be an unmanned script.

I ended up using a very old terminal program (procomm) which supports scripting for the job..

As much as I love AHK, it's just trying to reinvent the wheel to use it for my application.