Problems with an expect script

[Antony Stace <antony@example.com>]

Hi Folks

I am having problems with a simple expect script.  The contents are

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#!/usr/bin/expect -f 
set addy devmachine
set user devuser
set password PASSWORD

spawn telnet -l $user $addy

expect "user name:"
send "$user\r"

expect "password:"
send "$password\r"                  (1)

interact                             (2)

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this works fine.  When I want to set up some environment variables and a
few other things between (1) and (2),
ie

[snip]
expect "devmachine:"   #looking for the command prompt
send "resize\r"
[snip]

the script always logs on ok, then it stalls for about 10 seconds with
the message of the day followed by
                                                                              
^[[13;80R

after this annoying pause I eventually get the command prompt without
any of my commands being run.  I have tried putting a sleep 3 between
(1) and (2) but it doesnt seem to help.

Can someone please suggest how I might fix this.

Cheers

Tony