"Remote" for XENIX

[Wayne Schlitt]

In article <124 at mnopltd.UUCP> neal at mnopltd.UUCP writes:
> 
> ->Also, looking for a "Carbon Copy" or "Remote" like program for
> ->XENIX--y'know, like under DOS, so I can "eavesdrop" on what another user
> 
> I have looked before and come up dry.  Several notes come to mind:

the closest that i have come up with is to get a copy of script and
hack it to use unbuffered i/o.   all you have to do is have the
person type "script file" and you type "tail -f file", or have the
other person do a "script /dev/ttyxx".  


> 1. The link between terminals would likely have to be done in the tty device
> driver.  There are only about 8 skillion of these for different vendor 
> tty boards.   

no problem here since you are just using the regular device drivers... 


> 2. If the two terminals were different types, translation would be needed. 
> Messy.   Requiring Helper and Helpee to have identical terminals reduces
> potential market. 

yuppers, this is a problem.



oh yeah...  one other problem.  i never did get it to work on xenix
since script is bsd based...  (i didnt try to hard, but it didnt look
as easy as getting to work on hp-ux...)


i too would be interested in something that wasnt so much of a hack.


-wayne