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    Sat, 31 May 2003

    I made this. Forgive me.


    I was poking around the websites of ex-employers and I found a product I created still rearing it's ugly head. I conceived this monstrosity when I was saving up enough money to buy the store. Originally it was a Perl script which forked keystrokes into a fifo which basically saves all I/O for a shell session. I'd run the logs and it would playback your whole shell session a keystroke at a time. It even recorded vi sessions and other interactive programs.

    I wrote the initial prototype in about a day, and then handed it over to a better programmer to make a c program. We took the BSD Script utility and made it spit it's output into a secure port. While Ton worked on the c client, I refined the logging server which remained written in Perl. I'm not sure how or if it's changed in the year+ I've been gone, but I know I made the right decision in leaving.

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