2nd try. This is what I have. you need to set up a DCL command along the lines of
$ GCOBS :== "$GCOBS.EXE" then start it something like GCOBS tta9: There is one keystroke tp exit the program, and another to swap Been a while since I last used it. but(?) ^Z to exit, ^\ to switch On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 12:44 AM Dan Gahlinger <dgahl...@hotmail.com> wrote: > can you share it? I'd love to take a look at it > > Dan. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Simh <simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com> on behalf of Kevin Handy < > khandy2...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* March 30, 2020 2:17 AM > *To:* Hittner, David T [US] (MS) <david.hitt...@ngc.com> > *Cc:* simh@trailing-edge.com <simh@trailing-edge.com> > *Subject:* Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: Releasing terspy.mar - vax/vms terminal > spy program > > I found a program on an old gcc distribution called gcobs.mar. Dom't know > why they had it on there. but... > > It allows you to spy on another terminal, and if you type a ^\ (iirc) you > can interact with that terminal. The only authorship message I can see is > ;Last Modified: 6-SEP-1988 14:19:55.00, By: RLB > I know nothing of its licensing, I just have this one file. It worked > great. Not sure what privs are required either. > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 9:04 AM Hittner, David T [US] (MS) < > david.hitt...@ngc.com> wrote: > > Oh no… management frequently asked VMS admins to ‘spy’ on general users > for a few reasons back in the day, before the politically-correct era. > > - Make sure users were not defrauding the company [stealing > inventory with illegal transactions, etc.] (without user consent) > > - Watch user sessions when managers reported various discipline > problems (without user consent) > > - Debugging full-screen application behavior from a remote > location by having the user walk us through what they did (with user > consent) > > > > SET HOST/LOG sessions are difficult to use to see where full-screen > applications went wrong, since you have to manually interpret all of the > logged VT escape sequences. L > > > > For a while, there was a company selling a SPY utility for VMS, as well as > freebie versions floating around. The commercial version allowed the > watcher to enter data in the watched session by using a special command > sequence to enable remote data entry. I don’t recall any of the freebie > versions ever allowing data entry from the watcher, for fairly obvious > security reasons. > > > > There was also another highly privileged program on the DECUS tapes, > GLOGIN, which allowed a privileged user to login as another user, so that > you could see what application behavior occurred within the context of a > specific user. I found a weird bug in one of our application programs that > only occurred when the username was *exactly* 7 characters long using > GLOGIN to login as the user who had reported the bug that we couldn’t > duplicate ourselves. J > > > > David > > > > *From:* Simh <simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com> *On Behalf Of *Robert > Armstrong > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 25, 2020 10:23 AM > *To:* simh@trailing-edge.com > *Subject:* EXT :Re: [Simh] Releasing terspy.mar - vax/vms terminal spy > program > > > > >$ SET HOST/LOG will log your own session. This program logs someone > else's session. > > > > That’s true – I’m assuming the person being spied upon wants to be spied > on. > > > > Bob > > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > >
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