[plug] Q:Disable Monitor Turning Off

[Terry Porter]

On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Bevan Broun wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 02:08:42PM +0800, Matt Kemner wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Richard Mortimer wrote:
> > 
> > > Several times I've wanted to copy what I'm doing and how the machine 
> > > responds to a file; terminating when I wish to. How can I do this???
> > 
> > The easiest way is to run "screen" and to use ^A H to send output to a
> > logfile.  There is another way of doing it with "tee" and pipes, but I'm
> > not sure I remember what it was.. There was an article about it in a Linux
> > Journal earlier this year.

Jan 1998 issue 45, page 49, to be exact !

to copy a telnet session to a file

"telnet localhost | tee file-name"

to watch this on another term, "tail -f file-name"

Also "man tee" and "man tail" to find more info on these commands.
> 
> Also the "script" program.
> 
> Bevan
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terry