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I work in Maxima a lot (start it on the terminal with "rlwrap .../maxima" and sometimes I want to save a few (several) screens worth (scrolling) of calculations.

I realize I can use xmaxima, a variant that can then save it to a text file - that works. But I also sometimes use scipy/python in the terminal, or even others.

In general, is there a way to save several screens of interactive program input/output from the bash terminal to a file (possibly preserving 'word art', or 2D display)?

I use terminator, though not sure it matters. Also, sometimes I work on a debian system and other times on Linux Mint.

This is what the script tool is for. It will save an entire terminal session - inputs and outputs:

$ script sessionlog.txt
[ do stuff ]
$ exit
$ ls sessionlog.txt

Especially since you're already using rlwrap:

rlwrap has a --logfile (shorter:-l) option that will save the entire session (all edited input lines, and all output from the rlwrapped command) to a file:

rlwrap --logfile log.txt ../maxima

script is brilliant, but will also save all your typos and their corrections, which may be more than you need. rlwrap doesn't record anything until you enter a line, and then remembers only that line (and any command output that comes after it)