typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

[Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es>]

Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> writes:

> 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.
>

"script" in bsdutils package?

-- 
Alberto