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Kevin On Demand!


Start the session

Setup

The first screen you see is there to help you set the size of the telnet session. Typically, the window that appears will be 24 lines by 80 columns. This is not large enough for the playback, which requires 26 lines by 80 columns.

Type a character to move to the second screen. Then resize the telnet window (on Unix, grab a corner and stretch, on other systems, there should be a menu item allowing resizing) to 26 lines by 80 columns. You will know you have made it the right size when you see a rectangle in the middle of the screen. Note that if you see something like:

        lk
        mj

in the middle of the screen, then you do not have a true VT102 emulator, and the playback will not work. Type a "y" to start the playback, or a "q" to exit.

The display

The full screen is a 24x80 area, which shows you exactly what Kevin saw as he was typing (and the occasional bell is what he heard), and a status line. The status line contains the following fields, in order:

The date and time of the session
The speed and direction
What was actually being typed

The speed is a positive or negative number, or "STOP" if the session is not moving. If the speed is positive, the transcript is playing forwards; if it is negative, the transcript is playing in reverse. A speed of "+1.0" is real-time, so you're seeing it exactly as fast as Kevin typed it and saw it. You can speed it up to get through slow parts; typically a speed of "3.0" is reasonable, although it varies according to what is going on.

The right half of the status line is in reverse video, and it shows what was actually being typed. This means that fields like passwords, where you normally do not see what is typed, can be seen. You will also see special characters, such as cR for a carriage return.

Commands

You can change the speed of the session. The default is 1, which is the speed it was typed in the first place. You can also reverse it or pause it. Commands are:

     0-9      Move at a rate of 0-9. (0 is stopped.)
     >        Move forward.  
                If already moving forward, increase speed.
     <        Move in reverse.  
                If already in reverse, increase speed.
     }        Single-step forward.
     {        Single-step backward.
     +        Increase speed by 0.5.
     -        Decrease speed by 0.5.
     f,p      Move forward.  Reset speed to 1.
     F,P      Move forward.  Reset speed to 10.
     r        Move in reverse.  Reset speed to 1.
     R        Move in reverse.  Reset speed to 10.
     s        Slow, then slower.
     /        Skip.
     <space>  Pause.
     q        Exit.


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