Re: [9fans] History

["Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>]

From: George Michaelson <ggm@dstc.edu.au>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [9fans] History


> "Douglas A. Gwyn" <gwyn@arl.army.mil> writes:
> 
> >forsyth@vitanuova.com wrote:
> >> if you are intent for whatever reason on capturing, recovering, and
> >> especially modifying typed input on the fly (as with command
> >> completion but other things as well), i'd plug something (cf. pipefile)
> >> between typist and the recipient of the typing.
> 
> >Indeed, one measure of how good an operating system really is
> >is how transparent and efficient a program like BSD "script" is.
> 
> I use screen locally, because somebody else installs and supports it.
> 

i was gonna stay outa this, but script uses those god-awful ptys,
if i haven't lost all my neurons.

i think the point is that you gotta break with the past.  even those
'orrible pty's are 20 years old.