On Monday 19 January 2015 10:13:20 Richard Owlett did opine And Gene did reply: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine > > [SNIP] > > > >> apt-get remove network-manager seems to work just fine for me. > >> > >> Mart > > > > I have attempted that, several times in the past 5 or 6 years. The > > list of stuff it will also remove is usually several printed pages, > > IF you could actually get a printout. Unfortunately, you can't even > > copy/paste for a record from that screen by any method but a screen > > snapshot series. [snip] > > I had a similar problem some time back. > Someone pointed me to a utility that saved everything sent to a > console window. > It was not "redirection" nor a "pipe" as the console retained all > its functionality. > > The procedure was: > start the utility in the console specifying a destination file > run arbitrary number of commands > [the utility recording input keystrokes and resulting output] > terminate the utility > close console if desired > > I understand the typical use of the utility is in a classroom > situation where instructor needs to see exactly what the student > did. I know I saved the message but I can't come up with keywords > to retrieve it.
Sounds handy, but how does it handle an application open window whose contents cannot be copy/pasted? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201501191217.01442.ghesk...@wdtv.com