concurrent telnet output processing

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 05:14 +0000, thufir wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 21:57:14 -0700, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 03:39 +0000, thufir wrote:
> >> Is it possible to pipe a telnet client so that, concurrently, remote
> >> output is concurrently logged to a file and displayed on the terminal?
> > 
> > Try "script".  It saves a terminal session to a file.
> 
> it doesn't write to the file concurrently.  Most output doesn't show up 
> until you end the script.  That's the trick, to do it concurrently.  The 
> only way I could think of would be to use threads...

The "-f" flag flushes the output buffer after each write.

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