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From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM
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Subject: Re: Screen printing utility?
Message-ID: <1991May16.015459.8480@cbnewse.att.com>
Date: 16 May 91 01:54:59 GMT
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In-Reply-To: markw@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com's message of 2 May 91 16: 59:03 GMT

>>>>> On 2 May 91 16:59:03 GMT, markw@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Mark Wolfe) said:

Mark>     One of the people I work with asked me if I knew of a
Mark> utility that would copy text from the screen (terminal memory)
Mark> and either print it or save it in a file.

Well if you happen to be living under Oliver Laumann's "screen" (ftp
prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/screen-2.1.tar.Z (works on Berkeley style
UNIXes)) then two keystrokes (^A ^H) will do what you wish.  Otherwise
look at the script(1) and tee(1) man pages for less spontaneous
solutions.