Re: screen-shots in terminal-mode ?

["J.A. Bezemer" <costar@panic.et.tudelft.nl>]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, S. Champ wrote:

> hello.
> 
> is it possible to get a screenshot of each of the steps in the debian
> install-process? if so, how?

Have the to-be-captured screen on tty1, then on tty2 give command

 cat /dev/vcsa1 > somefile

And then some (yet unwritten?) program to convert the attributes to colors. Or
use /dev/vcs1 for non-attributed version. To get a graphic dump, use an xterm
with the `vga' font (in the dosemu package) with black backgr, lightgray
foreground, 80x25, then

 cat somefile; sleep 60

and an xv/gimp/... screengrab in that time.


Regards,
  Anne Bezemer