Re: Is there a *console* screen capture
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 15:34, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 10:41:08AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
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> > I would like to take a few snapshots of a console where I have dosemu running
> > and old DOS application. Does anyone know of a utility that can grab that
> > screen from another console?
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> Try 'cat /dev/vcsa0 > file' or 'cat /dev/vcs0 > file' (with 0 being the
> number of the console you use). The files will require some post
> processing (they contain escape codes,...)
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> If that doesn't work, I'm pretty sure there must be a way to capture the
> content of a framebuffer console to a bitmap file.
That'd be fbgrab
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> Frank
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-- Shaun
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