screen in Ubintu shell question?

screen in Ubintu shell question?

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Hi folks,
Hope I ask this clearly.
Both shellworld, and dreamhost, <my office host company>  use Ubuntu as 
the basis for the cli shells they provide with their services.
last week for a different project, a Debian user first told me, than 
provided me, with a file somewhat like a screenshop created using the 
screen program.
In their example if I ran a command like
screen links www.website.com
screen would open, let relaunch the links browser, and then visit the site 
in question.
whereupon control + a followed by -h would create a file called hardcopy, 
with numbers associated for said file.
My issue tough is that in the Ubuntu shell to to which I have access, 
typing
screen links www.website.com
produces the following error.
screen cannot accept www.website.com no such file or directory.  screen is 
terminating.
Is there an extra command line option needed to manage screen via Ubuntu in 
the same way the program seems to run in Debian?
Thanks,
Karen

screen in Ubintu shell question?

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On 2022-10-02 15:29, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> My issue tough is that in the Ubuntu shell to to which I have access, typing
> screen links www.website.com
> produces the following error.
> screen cannot accept www.website.com no such file or directory.  screen is
> terminating.

This sounds suspicously like you omitted "links" (or "lynx") from
the command, typing

  $ screen www.website.com

instead of

  $ screen links www.website.com

(assuming that error was "cannot exec" rather than "cannot except",
which is what would match the error I get when omit the browser)

You can use whichever browser you want (as long as it's available
on shellworld), so you could use lynx-the-cat instead of links-the-chain.

-Tim

screen in Ubintu shell question?

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Thanks,
There is a reason why I want to use links the chain here, documenting a 
dreamhost issue for dreamhost instead of shellworld.
Still your wisdom is sound.
now, if I can just get the hardcopy creation process to work.
Thanks,
Karen



On Sun, 2 Oct 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> On 2022-10-02 15:29, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>> My issue tough is that in the Ubuntu shell to to which I have access, typing
>> screen links www.website.com
>> produces the following error.
>> screen cannot accept www.website.com no such file or directory.  screen is
>> terminating.
>
> This sounds suspicously like you omitted "links" (or "lynx") from
> the command, typing
>
>  $ screen www.website.com
>
> instead of
>
>  $ screen links www.website.com
>
> (assuming that error was "cannot exec" rather than "cannot except",
> which is what would match the error I get when omit the browser)
>
> You can use whichever browser you want (as long as it's available
> on shellworld), so you could use lynx-the-cat instead of links-the-chain.
>
> -Tim
>
>
>
>
>
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screen in Ubintu shell question?

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On 2022-10-02 16:33, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> There is a reason why I want to use links the chain here, documenting a
> dreamhost issue for dreamhost instead of shellworld.
> Still your wisdom is sound.
> now, if I can just get the hardcopy creation process to work.

It should work with any interactive program that waits for
user-interaction.  While it's waiting, you hit GNU-screen's prefix
key (control+a) and then the letter "h" to indicate you want a
hardcopy of the screen.  It should save that to a file in the current
directory called "hardcopy.0" (I think if you do more than one of
them, it numbers them sequentially).  You can continue to use the
program as normal (possibly taking multiple screen-captures as you
perform various actions) and then when you quit, GNU screen quits
too.

Alternatively, you can launch GNU screen, which puts you in a
sub-shell inside screen.  You can then launch multiple programs
(either each in their own screen window, or serially) just as you
normally would, using the <prefix>h to capture a hardcopy of the
screen to a file.

-Tim

screen in Ubintu shell question?

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Hi,
no idea what the gnu is about..at all.
still, I discovered my error.
My source for the command added a dash, which I was typing before the 
letter  h.
Once I stopped doing that the hardcopy process began, allowing me to 
capture.
Thanks, problem solved.
Kare



On Sun, 2 Oct 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> On 2022-10-02 16:33, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>> There is a reason why I want to use links the chain here, documenting a
>> dreamhost issue for dreamhost instead of shellworld.
>> Still your wisdom is sound.
>> now, if I can just get the hardcopy creation process to work.
>
> It should work with any interactive program that waits for
> user-interaction.  While it's waiting, you hit GNU-screen's prefix
> key (control+a) and then the letter "h" to indicate you want a
> hardcopy of the screen.  It should save that to a file in the current
> directory called "hardcopy.0" (I think if you do more than one of
> them, it numbers them sequentially).  You can continue to use the
> program as normal (possibly taking multiple screen-captures as you
> perform various actions) and then when you quit, GNU screen quits
> too.
>
> Alternatively, you can launch GNU screen, which puts you in a
> sub-shell inside screen.  You can then launch multiple programs
> (either each in their own screen window, or serially) just as you
> normally would, using the <prefix>h to capture a hardcopy of the
> screen to a file.
>
> -Tim
>
>
>
>
>
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