<quote who="Michael Lake"> > I have been using screen to get multiple screens but I read that it can be > used to get a text dump of a session.
Sounds like script, not screen. > Reading the man pages sugggests that somehow I attach to an other process > that would dump the output but its not clear. You can use screen to watch someone else's session, which is what this is referring to. Very handy. But not what you want. > The sort of thing that I want to do is say record an 'apt-get upgrade' > session where I might have had to enter 'yes' to replace a config file or > something and thus I get a text file of my choices and what was changed. Definitely script(1). :-) - Jeff -- GVADEC 2004: Kristiansand, Norway http://2004.guadec.org/ "Slashdot seems to run a lot of obituaries. Perhaps there should be a topic for it." "There already is. It's called the BSD section." - Anonymous Coward -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
