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Figure 124: File > Save Pane
Dialog Box
2 Edit the text and press Return.
Saving the Contents of Windows
Like other Motif-based applications, you can use your mouse to copy and
paste text in TotalView and to other X Windows applications by using your
mouse buttons.
You can also manipulate text by using Edit > Copy, Edit > Cut, Edit > Paste,
and Edit > Delete. If you haven’t yet pressed the Return key to confirm your
change, you can use the Edit > Undo command to restore information.
Usually TotalView dives when you click your middle-mouse button on
something. However, if TotalView is displaying an editing cursor, clicking
your middle-mouse button pastes text.
Saving the Contents of Windows
You can write an ASCII equivalent to most pages and panes by using the
File > Save Pane command. This command also lets you pipe data to UNIX
shell commands. (See Figure 124.)
If the window or pane contains a lot of data, you can use the Restrict
Output option to limit how much information TotalView writes or sends. For
example, you might not want to write a 100 x 100 x 10,000 array to disk. If
this option is checked (the default), TotalView only sends the indicated
number of lines. You can, of course, change the amount indicated here.
When piping information, TotalView sends what you’ve typed to /bin/sh.
This means that you can enter a series of shell commands. For example,
the following is a command that ignores the top five lines of output, compares
the current ASCII text to an existing file, and writes the differences to
another file:
| tail +5 | diff – file > file.diff
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