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- Recorder
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- Template: TO=ON,PROCESS/K/N,APPEND/S,OFF/S
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- The Recorder command is used to capture all the input and output in a particular
- shell and save it to a file.
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- To use the recorder, merely type its name, ie
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- recorder
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- will activate the recorder, sending its output to the default file called
- "recorder.output"
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- If you wanted to use a different file name, you could have said:
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- recorder ram:work.in.progress
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- And the output would have been send to the file ram:work.in.progress
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- To stop the recorder, the OFF option is used, ie
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- recorder OFF
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- This must be issued in the same shell that invoked the recorder.
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- To append new information to an existing file, the APPEND keyword is used, ie
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- recorder ram:work.in.progress append
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- will add new information to the already existing file. This command
- can be issued after a recorder OFF command; In this way you can start
- and stop the recorder at will.
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- Note: The recorder process can also be stopped by sending it a break
- signal. This would be required to properly close the recorder
- output file if you inadvertently close the shell while the
- recorder is running. In that case, the shelll window would not
- close until you found the recorder process by using the STATUS
- command from another shell, and used the BREAK command to
- send the recorder process a control-C.
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- The Process keyword is used internally by recorder.
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- Recorder should not be RUN, as it attaches to the current process, so is
- generally not useful in its own short-lived process.
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- Recorder is based on ideas from Phillip Lindsey and David Cervone.
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