Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 12:27:49 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Btw, one feature that I think would be useful is a dribble capability
built into termios: the ability to save all input and output to a disk
file.  This should be easily implemented with two simple hooks in
tminit, and some mechanism (an environment variable? a global
variable?) to open the file and turn on dribbling.

This would solve a long-standing nuisance I have with programs which
use termios: SCRIPT doesn't catch the I/O because termios uses BIOS,
not DOS, to talk to the screen.  Some programs, such as GDB, which
don't have a built-in dribble feature, make it hard to save sessions
for future references, for this reason.