Scrolling, copying in Mac OS X

[Christopher rasch]

I frequently ssh into a remote machine at work from my machine at home 
(both running Mac OS 10.3.5). I often have to copy and paste error 
messages in the log files on the remote machine into my mail program 
(Mail.app) on my local machine. If the text I want to copy is longer 
than the size of my Terminal window, I highlight the text in the 
Terminal buffer by scrolling up the screen. When I paste the copied 
text into Mail.app, the formatting (returns, indenting) of the message 
is preserved.

However, in order to avoid having to restart all of the processes I'm 
working on if I get disconnected, I've started running screen (1) on 
the remote machine. Unfortunately, if I run screen, only the text 
that's visible in the terminal window can be highlighted--nothing in 
screens history seems to be visible to my local terminal. In addition, 
if I copy the text in the screen window into my mail program, I lose 
the space formatting, and it becomes an unreadable mash.

1. Is there a way to set up screen so that I can scroll further back 
(via Terminal) in it's history?
2. Is there a way I can change screens settings, so that the formatting 
of text copied from screen is preserved?

I've looked in the user manual linked below, and there are several 
possible variables I could change. Before I start going through them, I 
thought I would ask here in case someone knows where I should be 
looking. Thanks!

Chris

(1) http://rucus.ru.ac.za/docs/screen/index.html#Top