fwiw, in unix there is a tool called "script" that will record
all your commands and screen displays in the shell.  You can clean
up all the special characters by running it through "col -b".

so, you'd do something like this:

script July17-2003.log
after you get all done you type
	 "ctrl D" or "exit" to end it.

THEN:

cat July17-2003.log | col -b > July17_2003.log ; rm July17-2003.log

(this cleans up the log file and removes the one that will contain
jibberish and ugly stuff that normal folk don't care to see. ;)

In addition, if you set up your profile to create a special
place for your history you will preserve significant and useful
information. 

Add the following to your .profile in your UNIX accounts,
and "mkdir History" in your home directory: 

THIS WORKS ON HP-UX:
  
HISTFILE=History/`/bin/date '+%y%b%d'.history`
HISTSIZE=2048; export HISTSIZE
EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi; export EDITOR


THIS WORKS ON LINUX:

HISTFILE=$HOME/F/History/`/bin/date '+%y%b%d'.history` 
HISTSIZE=2048
export HISTFILE HISTSIZE


(be sure to export the variables HISTFILE, HISTSIZE and EDITOR)