Hi, * Dave Selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030205 16:20]: > When using X, you can highlight text and copy it to another area via the > middle mouse button. > > Is there a buffer file that holds the highlighted text ? This would be very > usefull for passing URLs etc to the ctrl-alt-f1 command line. Sometimes Xterm > is not ideal because it ceases when the user is changed. The same goes for > the GUI ! > > Yep I am thinking of downloading long files via wget !
In that case you can still use X, you just need to nohup your wget. eg. nohup wget http://whatever >& wget.log & man nohup for details. Actually there is probably something built into bash so that nohup is not required... but I don't know about interactive bash. Nick. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
