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Subject: BSD script program.
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Date: Mon, 27-Apr-87 22:12:47 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 27 22:12:47 1987
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	Before the existence of psuedo tty's (pty's), in particular,
BSD4.1 for VAX and BSD2.8 and BSD2.9 for PDP-11(I don't know of other
versions of UNIX for the PDPs), the script program used pipes to
capture typed in commands and the commands output into a file called
typescript.

	PROBLEM:  The program worked fine this way except that
if one tried to 'more' a file it wouldn't work(a bug that I am not
sure was ever fixed, also trying to 'vi' a file bombed)..  What I
mean by bombed or failed to work is that after hitting the <CR> you
would get nothing back, no prompt, no text.  I found that if you
hit the EOF key, the file you were more'ing would scroll by your screen
as if you cat'd it.  It also turns out that 'more' thought you were
trying to view more than one file, the first file being a NULL file
with a NULL name(the same for vi, strange!).

	QUESTION:  Has the script program ever been fixed to work
correctly with pipes and if so, can I get a context diff of the version
that works with the version released for BSD2.9 or BSD4.1(please!!!)???
The version I have is @(#)script.c 4.1 (Berkeley) 10/1/80.  Although
it would be *nice* to get the complete program!

	If anyone out there has solved this problem on their own, I
would greatly appreciate any help you can give.


Frank "franco" Lonigro
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