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TBT

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NAME

TBT - Time Based Text

SYNOPSIS

tbt [ options ] [ file ]

DESCRIPTION

Tbt is a commandline and console tool for time based recording and playback of keyboard strokes with a precision to the millisecond.

When recording, keys are saved in the specified .tbt file (called record.tbt by default) which can be later used to playback the sequence typed.

As a commandline tool it can record from standard input or playback to standard output (from and to a file or pipeline), so that it can be used in combination with other programs to reproduce a sequence of actions.

As a console tool it offers a simple typing interface to record and playback text exactly as it is typed, including all corrections and hesitations, to be employed in e-mail and poetry communication for instance.

It is tbt ability to keep the timing highly precise thru recording and playback, to provide a basic tool for synchronization of time based input and output.

OPTIONS

-h

show commandline help

-v

show version information

-D [ num ]

set debug verbosity level to (1 to 3), default is 1

-c

offer a console interface (S-Lang) for a simple terminal text editor, to interactively record (or playback) all operations performed in its making. If not specified, tbt will record from standard input or playback to standard output (unix pipes).

-r

run to record all the input keys (this is the default)

-p

run to playback all the keys in the .tbt file

-m

activate mail composer capabilities for the console recording interface, for integration with mail user agents as mutt

-s [ bin | ascii | html ]

choose the format in which to save the recorded file: by default binary is used and supported for playback by tbt, but more formats are provided for reproduction by other customized playback tools.

AUTHORS

Denis "Jaromil" Rojo
<http://rastasoft.org>

Joan & Dirk
<http://jodi.org>

A full list of developers and contributors can be found in the AUTHOR
file distributed with the source package.

Development commissioned by the Impakt.nl festival

Manual page and documentation by Jaromil.

COPYING

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this manual under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual page provided the above copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.

AVAILABILITY

The most recent version of tbt can be attained from its homepage at http://tbt.dyne.org and from the ftp.dyne.org software repository.

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