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$

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Bruce Johnson

"No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai


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