Log to Dot Matrix?

Brian, What terminal text? I presume that you have a command output on the screen, like the display you get from typing, say, ls -a or dir? If you don't specify an output type (like re-direction to a file or printer )Linux outputs a command results to the screen(stdout) If you want to send the output to a file or printer, try redirection, e.g. type ls -a >"filename" or ls -a | lpr. The exact syntax may depend on your distribution. Hope this helps. Look on linux.org for printing how-to.

I'll have to try piping it out to the printer. more man pages for me! ;) Thnaks a bunch Bri