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Re: Was: Ric Moore



On Monday 19 January 2015 10:13:20 Richard Owlett did opine
And Gene did reply:
> 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.

Sounds handy, but how does it handle an application open window whose 
contents cannot be copy/pasted?

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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