On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Paul Gear wrote:

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Pat Eyler wrote:

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On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Paul Gear wrote:

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(Somebody tell me if this info should be going to a better place...)

The practice of clearing the screen in the installer is not the best idea, IMO.

Another alternative would be to tee the output into a log file as well as writing it to the screen ... then you could make the screen as pretty as you like without losing the data from the install. (It also protects you from screen and other line eating issues.)

That's what i ended up doing (gotta love the script command), but i think not requiring me to do that (by not clearing the screen) would be a better approach.

well, i actually meant to have the script write the log as well as whatever it writes to the screen. then, you could do lots of pretty stuff on the screen to make people feel good about that fact that they're installing 'real software' without losing the important info -- and when users run into problems people trying to help can say 'well, just email me this file.' thanks, -pate

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