Hello Stephan! Nice to hear some word from you. :) On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 03:35:06PM +0200, Stephan Beyer wrote: > I wondered why Gunnar Monell changed 1.0b1 to 1.0. > The only change from 1.0b1 to 1.0 is a correction in the manpage, funny. > [...] True, that's the only change. Well, due to the not-so-extensive (read: absent) upstream changelog I can't say anything else about this. > By the way, there is a similar package by Maciek Swiderski (sfires), > called 'fbshot': http://www.sfires.net/fbshot/ > On freshmeat it got more hits than fbgrab, maybe it is better. I can't > say, because I don't use framebuffer anymore. According to what I read the author doesn't trust his program to work properly on anything else but i386, but he isn't sure about that. I just skimmed over it, so I cannot say either... Furthermore fbgrab is able to convert dumps made via a simple "cp /dev/fb0 framebuffer.dump" which fbshot can't. > Both, fbgrab and fbshot, are based on fbshot that I coded when I > had my first experiences in C (so it was terrible code). Perhaps that's > why I reply to this mail ;) So thanks for providing the base both programs developed from. :) Cheers, Flo
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