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Re: Terminal "mimic" program wanted

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From: Miquel van Smoorenburg
Date: Mon, 04 May 1992 10:31
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In article <MYCROFT.92May2145124@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
>
>In article <1992May1.050346.11714@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
>ccimh@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Ian M. Hunter) writes:
>>
>> We have had a request for Unix software which will permit what is
>> happening on one terminal to be echoed on another (or, preferably,
>> others) for demonstration purposes.
>
>The simplest way to do this:
>
>* Say user "A" is doing something, and users "B" and "C" want to watch.
>
>* User "A" runs `script'.  This starts logging *all output* from his
>session to a file "typescript".
>
[ stuff deleted ]

This might interest you - a script called 'cptty'
------x---cut here----x-------
#!/bin/sh
name=`basename $0`
if [ $# = 0 ]
then
	echo "Usage: "$name" <terminal> [ term2 term3 ... ]"
	exit 1
fi
TERMS=
while [ A$1 != A ]
do
	term=/dev/$1
	if test ! -w $term
	then
		echo $name": cannot open "$term" for writing"
		exit 1
	fi
	TERMS=$TERMS" "$term
	shift
done

exec script /dev/null 2>&1 | tee $TERMS
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Subject: Re: Terminal "mimic" program wanted
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