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author John "Elwin" Edwards
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1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
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3 <head>
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4 <title>TTYREC files</title>
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9 <h1>TTYREC files</h1>
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10 <div class="nav"><a href="/">rlgallery.org</a> -&gt; <a href="/about/">About</a> -&gt; TTYRECs</div>
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12 <p>TTYREC files are recordings of text-based sessions, much like screencasts are recordings of graphical sessions. The Roguelike Gallery and other roguelike
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13 sites create ttyrec recordings of games played online, so that others can watch them. The <a href="/archive.cgi">Archiver</a> will search rlgallery.org's
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14 ttyrecs for you.</p>
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15 <p>As you might expect, ttyrecs are not video files that can be played in video players. They contain mostly text, and you will need a ttyrec player to
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16 watch them.</p>
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17 <p><a href="http://0xcc.net/ttyrec/">The original ttyrec program</a> comes with ttyplay.</p>
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18 <p><a href="http://angband.pl/termrec.html">Termrec</a> includes termplay, which is easy to use and works on Windows.</p>
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19 <p><a href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/ipbt/">IPBT</a> is a newer player that allows you to rewind while playing.</p>
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20 <p>A ttyrec produced on one kind of terminal will not play properly on a different kind of terminal. Most modern terminals are similar and should produce
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21 compatible ttyrecs, but you might come across a file that won't work.</p>
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22 <p>Replaying also might not work properly if your terminal is a different size from the one that produced the ttyrec. If things are getting drawn in the
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23 wrong places, try making your terminal bigger. Unfortunately, ttyrecs don't tell you what the proper size is.</p>
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24 <p>(But it can sometimes be deduced, if you don't mind poking around with a hex editor. Check near the beginning for the sequence
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25 <span class="metavar">&lt;escape&gt;</span>[1;<span class="metavar">&lt;number of rows&gt;</span>r )</p>
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26 <p>Note: if you are using ipbt, you must also tell ipbt what size terminal to use. Check ipbt's documentation.</p>
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27 </div>
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