Re: script program surprise

[Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>]

Jude DaShiell wrote:
> I went and ran script and ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to catch the 
> failure happening.  I was wondering why the size of the file was 137K 
> when I finished so had me an examine of the typescript file.  There's 
> loads of ansi garbage in the file.  Is there a package I can use to 
> filter all of the extra stuff out and leave only text in debian?

I think you are using the ncurses frontend for debconf. If you want to 
log all your output, it would be better to use the readline frontend. 
try "dpkg-reconfigure -f readline xserver-xorg"

Raj Kiran