Jonathan McLean wrote:
> Okay, i do not have anyone who can teach me hand son
> about linux, and so im still stumbling along.  I
> cannot access the file with another computer because i
> cannot save it as a txt file.  This is what i was
> going to do: save my log as a txt file, copy it to a
> floppy, bring it to a windows machine, boot it up and
> email it to you.  Sadly, i do not know how to save it
> as a txt file.  Any help there.  I know about emacs
> and vi (im better with emacs), but thye dont appear to
> have a "save as" function in terminal mode.

The log file is already a text file, assuming you have mtools installed you can
copy the file onto a msdos formatted floppy using:
mcopy /var/log/XFree86.0.log a:



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