logging telnet sessions to a file

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Aaron Schuman <ucbvax.berkeley.edu!sgi!shinobu!odin!schuman> says:
>
>How interesting!  My posting was mostly unprinted lines because

I did not see your posting. Perhaps you might send a copy to me.

>of all of those funky control characters in my telnet log file.
>I hand edited the file, replacing <control-M> with <carat><M>,
>and <control-H> with <carat><H>, so that news would take it, and
>here it is:
>
>
>telnet | tee /tmp/telnet
>
... stuff deleted...
>Escape character is '^]'.
>
>
>^MIRIX System V.3 (saffron)
>^M^M
>^Mlogin: schuman
>^MPassword:
>^MIRIX System V Release 3.3 saffron
>^MCopyright (c) 1988,1989,1990 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
>^MAll Rights Reserved.
>^MMon Aug 13 09:39:15 PDT 1990
>^Msaffron /usr/people/schuman > date
>^MMon Aug 13 09:39:35 PDT 1990
>^Msaffron /usr/people/schuman > ex^H ^^HH ^Hecho 'Do you like it ^H ^H, Dan?'
>^MDo you like it, Dan?
>^Msaffron /usr/people/schuman > exit
>^Msaffron /usr/people/schuman > logout


Yes, your way clearly works.

I was also advised to try the script command, but that does not appear
to be functional on sgi telnet.

The set tracefile <filename> also does not work. It leaves a zero length
file but no traces in the file.

I will use your way, which is also clearly a hack (but a nice clever one).

I hope that the boys at sgi are listening and can do something.

dan.

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