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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: script(1) broken in 2.1R
Date: 5 May 1996 15:45:25 GMT
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rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Richard Reiner) wrote:

> script(1), as distributed in FreeBSD 2.1R, is broken -- it creates a
> zero-byte typescript, produces the error "opentty: no such file", and
> exits.

Under which circumstances?

j@uriah 529% script foo
Script started, output file is foo
j@uriah 51% date
Sun May  5 17:45:09 MET DST 1996
j@uriah 52% exit
exit
Script done, output file is foo
j@uriah 530% cat foo
Script started on Sun May  5 17:45:05 1996
j@uriah 51% date
Sun May  5 17:45:09 MET DST 1996
j@uriah 52% exit
exit

Script done on Sun May  5 17:45:11 1996

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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