Subject: Re: script in cygwin
From: "Steven O'Brien" <steven_obrien1 AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk>
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:46:24 +0000
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On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Jim Easton wrote:

> Does cygwin have a program called "script".  It is a program
> which records terminal traffic in a file.
>
> If so what would I select in setup to get it?

Fedora Core 4 gets this program from a package called "util-linux",
which I guess is roughly equivalent to the cygwin cygutils package.
Certainly it has some contents in common.

Some of the contents of util-linux are already included in official
cygwin packages, and others are not relevant on a Windows platform. But
it does have a few programs that may be useful, including script.

I have a patch for this package that enables building on cygwin of the
following programs as used in fedora core 4:
	arch
	chkdupexe
	hexdump
	line
	logger
	pg
	renice
	script
	setterm
	sln
	tailf
	ul
	whereis
	
I could possibly find time to package and maintain these, as they are
very stable (ie I don't expect there to be much maintenance), if the
cygwin maintainers think they are worth adding to the distribution.
Would it make sense to add these to cygutils, or to distribute them as a
distinct package (util-linux-cygwin?).

Regards,
Steven


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