-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew McGill wrote: > On Monday 28 July 2008 14:40:00 Micah Cowan wrote (in part): >> One way of looking at this is that this functionality was broken by the >> reimplementation in C. > I had the same problem with my (rejected) update - > http://www.lunch.za.net/software/script/script.c > >> Another position, at least as equally viable, is that >> script/scriptreplay was never really quite working right in the first >> place. > 100% agree. > > A neat place for timing information is to define a "delay in input" escape - > e.g. a delay of 1.123456 seconds is represented by ESC [ 42 ; 1 ; 123456 ] > (with a meta-meaning of "life is full of short delays") Esc [ ... ] is SDS, and is supposed to be the _start_ of a longer control string (with support for nesting). Probably a poor choice of escape. Better to use a terminating character from the private space [`a-z{|}~], perhaps with some preceding intermediate bytes [ !"#$%&'()*+,-./] to avoid collisions. > Cons: > > - More escape chars in script's output -- possibly frustrating certain types > of grep. If it's optional, this doesn't matter. > > Pro's: > > - It's very simple > > - A partial script file can retain timing information (e.g. the last 10 > minutes of ascii star wars). And it has the advantage that inserting new characters doesn't throw off the timing. > - Appending to a script file with timing becomes possible > > - We can dispose of the timing file entirely, and get rid of the orrible > ackiness noted People will still want it: it was there before, it should be there now. Plus, there are some few folks who my want _just_ the timing info, without the data, I don't know. > - Most (all?) terminals will ignore it as a spurious escapes (ie. "cat > typescript" still looks right in every way, except for CPR replies) There are likely to be exceptions, which is another good case for at least allowing an out-of-band communications mode for the timing. > And most importantly: > > - Having a delay code makes it possible to play music with the linux console > beep codes (set pitch, set duration, send bell, delay). Adding audio to > aalib is a good idea - no? I thought the beep codes are only via ioctrl? At the least, I know it can be done via ioctrl (I wrote a music-playing program for the console called "ditty", quite some time ago). - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer, and GNU Wget Project Maintainer. http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIjh3H7M8hyUobTrERAsgDAJ9rKqzqlR5YLlAbgq4CtJCop8IacwCfV+Zs 8hV0EG44tGkB0U8FUAFUFk0= =yoJo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
