Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: From: "Vince Mounts" To: Subject: RE: screen-3.9.13 available for testing (Was Re: Can bash log to a text file?) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:14:03 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Thanks a lot for the patch. I'll give it a try. > -----Original Message----- > From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu] > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 7:08 PM > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Cc: Vince Mounts > Subject: screen-3.9.13 available for testing (Was Re: Can bash log to a > text file?) > > > On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Vince Mounts wrote: > > > > > Is there some way to get bash to log all of its input and > output to a file? > > > I looked through man and info but if it was there I missed it. > > > > The input to bash is already logged in ~/.bash_history. If you want to > > log both the input and the output, consider using screen: > > http://dellelce.com/code/screen/ > > This is an attempt at a port of a newer version of GNU screen. > > The original source of screen version 3.9.13 can be downloaded at > ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/utilities/screen/screen-3.9.13.tar.gz > > Untar the source, apply the attached patch ( > > $ patch -p0 < screen-3.9.13-cygwin.patch > > ), and run > > $ ./configure --prefix=/usr > $ make > $ make install > $ touch /etc/ttys > > The last one is needed for screen to run properly. > > KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS: > - As far as I could see, screen doesn't recognize resolutions other than > 80x25. Perhaps a termcap guru can shed some light on this. > - I haven't tested all the features. If something (other than the above) > doesn't work, please report it to this list. > > I'm not sure I want to go to the trouble of submitting this to be an > official cygwin package, or of becoming a package maintainer right now. > If anyone wishes to do this or to adopt this package, be my guest. > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > It took the computational power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon. > It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here. -- SC sig file > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/