On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 03:06:49PM -0500, Joachim Schipper wrote:
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> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:37:47PM +0200, rancor wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Is there any way of copy/pipe the information on the console to a file? I
> > need the same information that I can see of I hold down Ctrl+Shift and using
> > PageUp/Down when I'm on the console. I'm not using serial, that would be
> > simple but I'm stuck right on the machine.
> 
> While Mickey's solution is rather cool, misc/screen would allow you to
> copy text off the screen (Ctrl-A [, select. Ctrl-A ]). It also has a lot
> of other useful commands.

i'd think it's impossible to find a person today who does not know
what screen is...
the question was how to capture existing (as in already happened)
console output as far as i understand it.
cu
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    paranoic mickey       (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)