Looking for "photo" program

Jon LaBadie jonfu at jgcomp.com
Sun Feb 14 04:19:24 UTC 2016


On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 03:08:39PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> There used to be a Unix program for copying text as it was typed.
> As I recall, the original program was called "photo",
> but then it changed its name, or another program took its place.
> (I think the program in fact copied all input and output.)
> 
I believe the UNIX program (actually BSD) you are thinking of is
"script".  All terminal i/o is saved to file "typescript".

> Is there such a program today?

It is on my F22 and CentOS7.2.

> 
> (I actually want to save Firefox input and output.)

I think it is only useful in a CLI environment, i.e. a terminal.

jl
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