[Simh] Releasing terspy.mar - vax/vms terminal spy program

[Robert G. Schaffrath]

Back in the late 1980's, my firm had a program called WATCH (binary is 
WATCHMAN.EXE) that allowed both passive and interactive monitoring of a 
terminal. In passive mode, you could see the activity on the specified 
line without any interaction (WATCH/NOINPUT). In interactive mode, you 
could interact with the session. It was a very useful tool for helping 
remote users. Much like Windows software now that lets you (and 
scammers) provide remote assistance to someone's computer.

I searched the binary for any strings indicating authorship and I cannot 
find anything. The firm had other "interesting" VMS tools besides this 
one including what I considered to be the best deleted file recovery 
utility (RECOVER.EXE) but I never found out where they all came from. 
One of our employees was the late John Wisnewski, who had started the 
VMS Hobbyist Program, so it is possible they were something he obtained. 
When I visited him at our office in Dallas back in the 80's, he gave me 
a tape with all kinds of interesting "toys". Sadly I do not have that 
tape any longer.

On 3/25/2020 10:40 AM, simh-request at trailing-edge.com wrote:
> Re:  Releasing terspy.mar - vax/vms terminal spy program