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In article <MPG.1634f54293dd069f989752@news-server.vic.bigpond.net.au>, 
Mark Lambert <mark.nospamplease@lambcom.com.au> wrote:

> In article <3BCA3B59.6192B31C@hotmail.com>, munwin99@hotmail.com says...
> > Am running RH7.1, and one of our programs is running on a box I telnet
> > into. Have got this working. Have installed one of our HP networked
> > printers. This prints OK (from Netscape, etc,etc,etc). Now I wish to be
> > able to screen dump from the open telnet session. HOW ???
> > 
> > 
> two answers off the top of my head.
> 
> run your command (man page, screen, whatever) through tee
> as in
> man telnet | tee -a /tmp/screencap.txt
> tee casues a T in your output pipe.. one copy to screen, teh other to 
> file.
> 
> the other method is to log in twice and cut & paste from one window to 
> the other. 
> 
> native screen capture, that is, push a button and out pops a file/print 
> job, would be a function of your Telnet program, not Unix.
> 
> I use terraterm (with the ssh extenstions) and it has a copy/paste 
> function that can copy highlighted text,  but not a print screen 
> function. Others might. Some might even emulate the original vt100 "print 
> screen" function, but good luck finding one.

Also try script, info at the usual man pages.

$ script filename 

starts recording 

$ <Control>D 

ends the recording. 

Bonus is that it automatically appends the date at the start and end of 
filename.

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