From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 7:50:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C98337B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 07:50:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from the-frontier.org (ns1.the-frontier.org [216.86.199.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1042143E75 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 07:50:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pscott@skycoast.us) Received: from [192.168.66.249] (dhcp-249-66-168-192.the-frontier.org [192.168.66.249]) by the-frontier.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA74722; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 07:50:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pscott@skycoast.us) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1309 Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 07:50:06 -0800 Subject: Re: simple question From: "Paul A. Scott" To: Paul Everlund Cc: Kent Stewart , mike , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Just a shot in the dark, but how about... > > # script tarout tar -xvzf ports.tar.gz & Actually, that won't work. The 'script' command will redirect the output to a file, but it still outputs to the terminal, which is not what was originally requested. My previous explanation is the correct solution. Paul A. Scott mailto:pscott@skycoast.us http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message