Re: Is there a *console* screen capture

From: Shaun ONeil (shaun_at_dog-berry.com)
Date: 07/31/03

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    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?
    >
    > 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,...)
    >
    > 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

    >
    > Frank
    >

    -- Shaun

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