Re: dump xterm scroll back buffer to file

From: Harry Putnam (reader_at_newsguy.com)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 07:43:21 -0500

Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>> My setup:
>> *--
>> Software:
>> Linux kernel 2.6.7-1.503 Architecture i686
>> Fedora Core release 2.90 (FC3 Test 1)
>> Hardware:
>> model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
>> cpu MHz : 1994.702
>> *--
>
>> I think I once a knew a command or series of commands that would dump
>> the scroll_back buffer of an xterm to STDOUT.
>
>> Any one here know how that is done?
>
> no (I recall some comments in the code which seem to indicate it was
> removed many years ago). Perhaps you're thinking of a patched version.

Thanks, It is possible it was a patched version if so it would have
had to been a stock redhat patch. I've run primarily redhat since
1996 but never recall building my own xterm package or grabbing a
non-stock version.

I know you've been heavily involved in xterm devel over the years ...
do you know if redhat ever had such a patched version?

Or even better, can you help me patch a version so I can access the
scrollback buffer somehow?

I'm guessing security reasons would be why it was removed? In private
(single user machine) usage, that might not be much of consideration...

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