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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.sources.wanted,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tty watcher
Message-ID: <817@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 00:06:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.817
Posted: Fri Sep 25 00:06:25 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 18:24:11 EDT
References: <4263@ozdaltx.UUCP> <5070@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <1431@cognos.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: You can do *that* on vanilla V7 UNIX.
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In article <1431@cognos.UUCP>, brianc@cognos.uucp (Brian Campbell) writes:
> ! <...an effective tty watcher or "spy" program,
> ! <Looks like MS-DOS wins this round.
> ! When did MS-DOS start supporting multiple users so that such a thing
> ! would make sense?
>    Well, although the posted message didn't specifically mention it, the
> original question related to watching what callers were doing on a BBS.
> I guess MS-DOS just might have won this round.

You can, of course, do the same thing on UNIX (watch what people are doing
on a BBS), exactly the same way (have the BBS program echo stuff). I've seen
two systems that do it (one of which not only traps the characters, but talks
to called processes via pipes so you can have other programs do mail, etc,
and have them echoed too).
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