Mike/zentara -- This was exactly what I needed -- thanks for the assistance! cheers, ~stuart

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From: Mike Pilone[SMTP:MPILONE@SLAC.COM] Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] copying text from terminal output

You can always let it just output to the terminal, then highlight it, then middle click in a text editor, like vi.

-mike

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From: zentara[SMTP:ZENTARA@MINDSPRING.COM] Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] copying text from terminal output

I usually just start gpm (general purpose mouse). Then highlight the desired text on screen while holding the left mouse button. Then <alt-F2> to another tty and "touch filename"; then "edit filename" with your favorite editor. Then right click the mouse, and presto...there it is.

On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Stuart Updegrave (Wasser) wrote:

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Is there a way to copy text from a terminal screen into a file? I've got what appears to be a corrupted SuSE 5.3 boot disk, and I want to capture

the

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text that displays when I try to mount it so that I can send to SuSE support.

I've tried redirecting the output in various ways (note, these may not be entirely correct, as I'm pretty new to Linux):

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > err mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy 2> err mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy >& err

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From my reading I gathered that one of these three options would redirect the output to the file 'err'.

A thought: could I pipe the output from mount into vi? (I'm not at my Linux box now, so I can't try this)

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy | vi

My current config is RH5.0 on an AMD 486-133/16mb RAM/4.2gb HD.

Any feedback greatly appreciated.

Thanks, ~Stuart

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