ttyrec mit Homebrew, apt, MacPorts installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• ttyplay
• ttyrec
• ttytime

Projektgeschichte

The official 0xcc page records ttyrec 1.0 as released on 2000-12-27, calling it the first version. The same page was last modified in 2006 and lists ttyrec 1.0.8 as the 2006-06-11 release.

ttyrec's model was deliberately small: record terminal bytes plus timing, then play them back. The page says it can record programs running on a tty such as Emacs in terminal mode, vi, lynx, or arbitrary tty programs.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The official page links a tarball, RPM packages, and CVS, and the supplied package facts show continued packaging in Homebrew, Debian, MacPorts, and Ubuntu.

The project also seeded a small ecosystem around terminal recording. The official links list IPBT, TTYPLAYER, Term::TtyRec, x11rec, and related experiments; ttygif later used ttyrec files as its input format.

Wie es verwendet wird

The basic documented workflow is `ttyrec` to record an interactive shell, `ttyrec -e command` to record a specific command, and `ttyplay ttyrecord` to replay the result. Playback can be sped up, slowed down, reset to normal speed, or watched in real time with `ttyplay -p`.

The official page also documents `ttytime` for measuring recorded data duration, gzip/gunzip handling for large recordings, a uuencode-based file-transfer option, and an inetd-based `ttyplay` server for serving recordings over telnet.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

ttyrec is historically significant because it is one of the compact ancestors of terminal demo tooling: before browser terminals and asciinema-style casts, it gave Unix users a packageable format for recording and replaying terminal work.

For package maintainers, it remains a small C utility with multiple executables (`ttyrec`, `ttyplay`, and `ttytime`) and a long tail of dependent or adjacent tools, especially converters and web players.

Zeitleiste

• 2000: ttyrec 1.0 released as the first version.
• 2003: TTYPLAYER added to the official links.
• 2005: IPBT added to the official links.
• 2006: ttyrec 1.0.8 released with a playback time-drift reduction hack.

Related projects

• The official page lists IPBT, TTYPLAYER, Term::TtyRec, x11rec, and chatty as related links.
• ttygif is a later converter that uses ttyrec recordings as input.

Quellen

• http://0xcc.net/ttyrec
• source_facts.executables
• source_facts.package-manager