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From: sasaki@HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU (Marty Sasaki)
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Subject: re: VMS equiv of BSD 'script'?
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Date: Mon, 6-Jan-86 02:26:39 EST
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There are several versions of a program called "photo" that acts like
script. All of the versions that I know of use pseudo terminal
drivers.

There are several advantages to using photo over "set host 0/log":

    o	You don't need NETMBX. While there isn't much harm with
	granting NETMBX, I can see restricting access to the network.

    o	You don't have to log in again.

    o	You can restrict access. Photo can check the parent process to
	make sure that someone isn't running a photo within a photo
	within a photo. Students would often get confused and do
	multiple "set hosts".

The only real problem is that DECNET is much more efficient.

Photo (as well as several pseudo terminal drivers) have been
distributed on the DECUS Symposium tapes.

		Marty Sasaki