Wow, Jude thanks for that never seen reference to script command before and could be very handy. tom Fowle On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:42:17AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > The script command captures everything coming from the keyboard and > everything appearing on the screen while it runs and saves all of > that to a file (default) typescript. If you exit script by typing > the exit command at the command prompt while script is running it > saves the typescript file for you. If for whatever reason you want > to append to that original typescript file later, you run script -a > to do that. Whenever script is run, it puts a timestamp with date > and time from your system for when the typescript file got created > or updated. Hope this helps. I find it especially to let > developers see what commands I typed and what their applications did > with those commands when reporting bugs since this gives developers > the reproduction instructions. > > On Sat, 23 May 2015, Hart Larry wrote: > > >Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 10:45:32 > >From: Hart Larry <chime@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > > <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Subject: Re: Where Can I Input this Command? > > > >OK, Jude, take2, as I got knocked off again. I had never heard of > >this "script" command, but while there are other logging tools, my > >`big questions? Would I have it monitor, what? /stty/0, > >synth_direct, exactly where? And I don't think that man-page > >provides any use examples. Meanwhile, thanks, this will be a > >discussion issue at our Linux meeting this evening. > >Hart > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup