On Oct 17, 2008, at 5:38 PM, Wilton Shaw wrote:
> You tell me this works and I believe you, But it doesn't work for me. > I can copy from terminal to my screen, What do you mean by this? 'copy to your screen' Do you mean dragging text off to the desktop as a clipping? If so just drag the clipping to your mail. If you're not selecting stuff first, then your paste will remain grayed out, because you haven't selected anything to paste, just like any other program. Terminal is a Mac program just like any other and follows the same rules as any other Mac program. Here is the result of a copy/paste of a command like yours. I just selected the text I wanted, by dragging across it with the mouse button held down, selected Copy, switched to Mail and selected paste: Last login: Sat Oct 18 07:57:38 on console SwampThing-2:~ johnson$ traceroute gmail.com traceroute: Warning: gmail.com has multiple addresses; using 64.233.161.83 traceroute to gmail.com (64.233.161.83), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 ip70-176-115-64.ph.ph.cox.net (70.176.115.64) 3.427 ms 2.300 ms 2.193 ms 2 10.240.32.1 (10.240.32.1) 20.388 ms 8.606 ms 28.744 ms 3 68.0.128.93 (68.0.128.93) 11.000 ms 9.888 ms 10.482 ms 4 70.169.73.25 (70.169.73.25) 16.301 ms 16.329 ms 14.498 ms 5 paltbbrj01-so000.0.r2.pt.cox.net (68.1.2.157) 34.148 ms 51.564 ms 38.473 ms 6 216.239.49.250 (216.239.49.250) 50.373 ms 42.890 ms 38.749 ms 7 209.85.249.140 (209.85.249.140) 107.789 ms 94.060 ms 105.675 ms 8 66.249.95.148 (66.249.95.148) 92.287 ms 91.292 ms 152.044 ms 9 72.14.236.200 (72.14.236.200) 94.061 ms 64.233.175.171 (64.233.175.171) 90.754 ms 90.882 ms 10 216.239.48.190 (216.239.48.190) 97.489 ms 216.239.49.214 (216.239.49.214) 94.027 ms 97.399 ms 11 od-in-f83.google.com (64.233.161.83) 97.126 ms 93.104 ms 92.153 ms SwampThing-2:~ johnson$ -- Bruce Johnson "No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---