screen command creates new window instead of new instance.

2009-01-30 Thread Chris Jones
This left me speechless until I could figure out what was happening: I was running a screen session started like so: $ screen -S xscrn I wanted to test some prospective changes to my .screenrc, so from this same screen session I started an xterm: $ xterm -tn "xterm-256color" .. and proceed

Re: using screen logs

2009-01-30 Thread Will Stevenson
Hi Jae, I spent several hours trying to tackle this same issue. I wanted to share what I found out. I found 2 programs that do a pretty good job in removing the escape codes: 1. Ansifilter: http://www.andre-simon.de/doku/ansifilter/ansifilter.html 2. Ansi2txt: http://sourceforge.net/proj

Re: using screen logs

2009-01-30 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jae Norment wrote: > I use screen to log sessions where I patch Debian servers. Screen > captures ANSI control codes (like positioning and color changes), which > is probably appropriate, however, I want a version of the logs without > those codes so