Gene Heskett wrote:
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. MartI 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
I don't follow you.My response was to your Jan 18 post [https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/01/msg00628.html] saying that "apt-get remove network-manager" generated a multi-page list of files to be removed and it was not possible to cut-n-paste to a file suitable for review at leisure.
"script" [http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=script] seems to satisfy your needs.
In a root terminal type:
script
apt-get remove network-manager
{terminate apt-get by entering n}
{terminate script by entering cntrl-D}
There will be a file titled "typescript" in your home folder.
HTH