Re: Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?

[Dave Selby <dave_arahan@yahoo.co.uk>]

On Wednesday 05 February 2003 7:04 am, Dave Selby wrote:
> When using X, you can highlight text and copy it to another area via the
> middle mouse button.
>
> Is there a buffer file that holds the highlighted text ? This would be very
> usefull for passing URLs etc to the ctrl-alt-f1 command line. Sometimes
> Xterm is not ideal because it ceases when the user is changed. The same
> goes for the GUI !
>
> Yep I am thinking of downloading long files via wget !
>
> Any Ideas
> Dave

Thanks for your suggestions guys, will try them out, also someone suggested 
wvdial as an option ... will investigate

Dave