Apple AppleWorks 5 : Mac OS - Manual (Page 267)

Communications 10-7
Capturing incoming data
You can capture, or save, all incoming data (not just the contents of the
screen and the scrollback pane) in a text file as it’s received. When you
capture data, the file is saved on disk—not in memory.
You can start capturing data before you connect or while you’re online. For
example, if you don’t want to save your online service’s menus, you can wait
to capture data until you’re about to receive the information you want.
Saving and printing communications documents
When you save a communications document by choosing Save from the File
menu, you are saving the contents of the terminal area, the scrollback pane,
and your current communications settings. You can save a communications
document at any time, even if you’re connected to another computer.
To save only the text in the scrollback and terminal areas (excluding the
communications settings), choose Save As from the File menu. Name the
document, choose Text from the pop-up menu, and click OK.
Important You should not use Save on the File menu as your primary means
of saving incoming data; you should use it mainly for saving
communications settings. When you save a document with Save, copies of the
scrollback pane that you saved earlier are overwritten and data may be lost.
To store incoming data safely, capture it directly to a file. See the previous
section, “Capturing incoming data.”
To print a communications document, choose Print from the File menu. You
can print at any time.
* Choose Index from the or Help menu and scroll to the entry. Then choose a topic from
the list and click Go To Topic.
To Choose
Begin capturing incoming
data Capture to File from the Session menu, enter a filename, and then
click Save
Stop capturing the data Stop Capture from the Session menu
Set preferences that affect
how you capture data Preferences from the Edit menu. In the Preferences dialog box,
choose Communications from the Topic pop-up menu, select
options, and then click OK.
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In the Help index, * see:
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capturing data