[orca-list] copying text in a terminal to a file

[michael weaver <weavermicha googlemail com>]

if i am still having poblems as regards things like errors 
running speech-dispatcher, how do i copy text from a terminal 
into a file?
i know when i last looked at doing something like this as i was 
doing a very painfully slow way of trying to copy out error 
messages before, i did ask on one of the combuntu lists if there 
was a way of doing it but i was told on this list that it could 
only be done visually.
i don't think you can do controla a to select the text and go to 
edit menu and do a control c to copy the text.  i don't know if 
the menus have changed in gutsy to enable a speech user to do 
this.