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From: markw@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Mark Wolfe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Utility to print terminal memory.
Message-ID: <15710006@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>
Date: 24 May 91 15:24:25 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID
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    Well, I have my answer, and I was very surprised at the responses I got. 
Most of the "wizards" said this was impossible to do in most cases and difficult
at best. I guess terminals with their own memory are rare outside HP (hah!). It
turns out all you need to do is issue 'lp' so it's reading from stdin and use
the cursor control keys to send the cursor to the point on the screen you want
to copy and hit enter until you've printed what you need, then control D to 
stop. All this is obviously very standard stuff. The whole thing is so simple
I don't know why I didn't think of it before. I think some of you should go back
to wizard school.

Mark