It just wasn't my day (week?  And to think taht I used tio love silver 
birches!).  I sent this immediatel;y after the other, and managed ot 
send it to myself. :-(  Sorry, Ray. :-(

On Sunday 06 April 2014 17:47:31 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Sunday 06 April 2014 06:54:53 Chris Bannister wrote:
> > $ man dmesg
>
> $ man dmesg > text.txt

Sorry, you want:
$ dmesg > text.txt

> You will get a text file that you can read properly, and even
> change the font if you want to.
>
> If you want to be able to use gedit to alter root owned files,
> there are two ways (other than logging in as root at the command
> line) that you can achieve this:
> 1.  Open a root terminal by your preferred method, at the command
> prompt type gedit.  gedit will then be running as root.
> 2.do alt-F2.  in the window taht will open up type :
> gksu gedit
> then "enter"
> Again, gedit will be running as root.
>
> HTH
> Lisi


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