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Subj:	Notes on WATCH


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From: Ted Nieland - SRL <@WPAFB-AAMRL.ARPA:TNIELAND@FALCON>
Subject: Notes on WATCH
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A few notes on the WATCH program that posted along with SNAP a while back:

A) For those that don't know, WATCH only recoginizes to key strokes:

  1) CTRL-\:  Turns on INPUT mode.  Once in input mode anything you type is 
      sent to input stream of the terminal being WATCHED, except for CTRL-\
      which turns off the INPUT mode.

  2) CTRL-Z:  Exits WATCH (except when in INPUT mode).

B)  You can WATCH VTxxx terminals

C)  You can WATCH LTxxx terminals

D)  You can WATCH pseudo terminals (the OBSERVE program cannot watch pseudo 
    terminal or be run from within a pseudo terminal)

E)  You cannot WATCH RTxx terminals, but you CAN run WATCH from a RTxx terminal

F)  You CAN WATCH NTYx terminals (NTYx terminals are network logins on machines
    running WIN/TCP).  Has anyone tried other network terminals from other
    TCP/IP packages like FUSION, Multinet, CMU, etc.?  Please post your
    experiences.

Does anyone have any idea on how to get WATCH to work so you WATCH RTxx 
terminals?  It would be very helpful to have the program do such.

WATCH can be a very dangerous program, but it can also be a tremendous 
training/teaching aid for system managers/operators who are getting phone calls
from people who "can't get that *&^$% machine to work right".  And with the
number of Networked system these days, it would be nice to have WATCH work 
with all terminal types.

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