Maybe the solution could be as simple as a perl script that buffers the data and then does a
propper open/write/close on the file? Should be easy enough to do.
--Brad
--- Mike Manchester <mchester@pobox.com> wrote:
> Here's the scoop.
> At work we have a software program (tinyterm) that dials into a remote
> site and sends and receives mostly ascii data. What we would like to do
> is echo the traffic through the tty1A (or what ever port the modem is
> on) to a file. In hopes of this will help troubleshoot connections
> problems. It would be nice if there was a standard unix way of doing
> this as we really don't want to install software on a customers site if
> it can be helped. Is it possible to do something like this using tee and
> maybe tail -f. We played around with using tail -f /dev/tty1a |tee
> temp.log but we had no way to close the file thus the data was always
> lost.
>
> Any help / suggestions would be appricated.
>
> Mike M.
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