Getting ansi-term(?) to do something via elisp

[Gary <help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name>]

I am trying to "script" part of connecting to a remote server as part of
a mode I am working on. What I've discovered is that the remote server
seems to be sending colour control sequences as part of the output, so a
normal shell looks "strange". Is there any alternative to using
something like

,----
| (let ((mypass (read-passwd "Login password for user@server: "
|               )
|      ))
|   (start-process-shell-command foo
|                                "foo"
|                                "ssh bar@foo")
|   (process-send-string foo (concat mypass "\n"))
| ...
`----

perhaps using ansi-term, which can handle the control sequences?

I thought of just trying to send the commands that I need ("ssh" and so
on) to an ansi-term buffer, but don't know how to get hold of the
process.

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