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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re: Can something like Script be done in System V?
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Date: Sun, 16-Jun-85 04:27:05 EDT
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> Well System V wizards, how do you do a front end program that has total
> terminal control even over a raw mode "application" like vi. 
> Some programs don't like to be piped at, so they have to fooled somehow.

The general answer is, you can't do that in UNIX System V Release 2.
I suspect it would be easy enough with stream I/O; rumor has it that
stream I/O may be supported in the next release, which may be available
around the end of this year.  But this is just a rumor.

UNIX processes were not supposed to care whether their input was from a
terminal or not..