How do I grab text off a server?

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For the first time in my life as a software developer I am tasked to remote in by VPN (sort of) to a server where ASP code resides. I want to copy and paste the text locally so I can do things like searches for function names and such. I can do it on the server perhaps but there is an issue with lag time. Also, the screen I remote into with is small.

I would like very much to cut and paste the ASCII text.

I can cut and paste via screen shots and piece it together and then use OCR software to convert into text. But that does not work.

Of course, cutting and pasting the ASCII does not work. The shared system memory does not work.

What I have tried:

tried to copy and text ascii text.
tried to copy and past text as a screen grab to use with OCR but it did not work well.

Posted 17-Aug-21 6:23am

Xarzu

Updated 17-Aug-21 6:39am

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Richard Deeming · Answer 1 · 2021-08-17T06:39:00

If the remote server disables clipboard access, then you won't be able to copy and paste anything to your local computer.

You could try uploading the code somewhere - a private GitHub gist[^] for example. But this may be blocked, depending on how locked-down the server is.

You are going to need to talk to the owners of the server to get them to give you proper access to the code. There's nothing we can do.