Re: Logging xterm contents to a file.

[Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>]

On Tue, 8 May 2007, Mansoorali Kudsi wrote:

> Is it possible to save the entire contents of a xterm window into a
> file? (using anything other than "script")
>
> e.g. for a putty window, we have an option of logging all the contents
> of the putty window into a file
> just by doing a right click and giving the file name and path in the
> properties window.
>
> Do we have a similar option for an xterm window in Cygwin?

You should be able to setup a printer, use that to print a screen
(though I've only tested it on Linux, Cygwin is "supposed" to work).
It can be just a shell script that redirects its output to a file.

See the "printerXXX" resources in xterm's manpage.

	http://invisible-island.net/xterm/manpage/xterm.html

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