R1#terminal length 0

this command doesn't get a lot of air play and it should...  one of the very great features about cisco routers and switches is the ease of configuration achieved with a simple terminal console (or telnet) session, a word processing program and a mouse... copying start to a tftp server is a great way to back up configurations but when you're bouncing around from console, to telnet with multiple devices and you need a quick fix backup, open notepad or some such and scrape the terminal output in to it...

the crux of the matter below:

r2620_03#term length 5
r2620_03#sh run
Building configuration...

Current configuration : 1428 bytes
!
version 12.4
 --More--

i shortened the term length to illustrate this point; notice the annoying --More--...

of course you hit the space bar to race through to get where you want to be, but if you want a clean scrape to dump into notepad, get rid of  --More-- by setting the term length to 0...

 r2620_03#term length 0

this will give a clean run, without nasty  --More--

then just scroll back to the top of the output, run the mouse over the text, right click the highlighted text and copy to the buffer..  go back to the config prompt, right click and paste...  it will simply load the text as commands and dump it into the running config...


naturally, you could also edit the text before the scrape to get rid of the bad experiments first...

set the term length back to, say 25, and you'll get about a screen at a time next go...

but of course you knew this already...