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Subject: Re: [9fans] History
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:50:01 +0000
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Boyd Roberts wrote:
> i was gonna stay outa this, but script uses those god-awful ptys,

That's beside the point.  I didn't say "port script", I said
one measure of how good an operating system really is is how
transparent and efficient a program *like* BSD "script" is.
It ought to be possible to interpose a program "at" the user
interface that captures all user output (which might be
graphic, although for many purposes we could settle for the
text that is understood by the terminal-like text windows)
in some reviewable/replayable database (simple sequential
text log, if not supporting graphics).  Ideally, user input
should be captured also (if supporting just text, then the
displayed echo of the input might suffice).

One design issue for a script-like program is how to process
user-generated signals.