Dial, Connect and Use a BBS

[Dfigueredo]

This is my first post on this site. I'm a new VB.Net programmer that has been tasked with writing a app to dial a BBS, Navigate the menu system and then upload a file using X,Y, or Z modem.....

Most all my experience has had to deal with database, and file parsing and I am swimming in deep water here. I have looked around online and not found a good How TO article on this type of thing. I know BBS is from a by-gone era, but my company has to deal with this sort of thing a lot. Currently they use Expect script and Unix Shell scripting to do most of this sort of thing, but by dept. wants to do it in VB.net from a windows box.

can anyone out there help or point me to some good resources on this sort of thing.

Thanks in advance...