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Subject: Terminal Session Transcripts
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Date: Wed, 25-Jun-86 16:46:15 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 25 16:46:15 1986
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The command script(1), which appears to be available in Berkeley Unix but not 
AT&T System V, spawns a subshell.  A transcript of all input and output for 
the terminal session with the subshell is saved in a file.  The file has
zero length while the subshell is active, and the complete transcript is 
written to the file when the subshell terminates.

Is there any way to access a partial transcript from a different
terminal or process while the spawned subshell is still active?  I have 
tinkered with pipes, tees, direct references to /dev/tty, redirections of 
named descriptors, and the like, in both Bourne Shell and C-Shell, but
don't have it quite right.  I get incomplete transcripts, broken pipes
and other errors.  Can someone help?

David Ellis / DEC, Littleton MA / 617-486-6784 
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