36 lines
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36 lines
1.3 KiB
Groff
.TH SCREENDUMP 8
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.SH NAME
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screendump \- write current console screen to standard output
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B screendump
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B Screendump
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prints the contents of the console screen to standard output. It does this
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by reading the screen memory, skipping over attribute bytes, omitting
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trailing blanks and inserting a newline character at the end of each line.
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.SH NOTES
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The most common use of
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.BR screendump
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is with output redirected to a file. This allows screen displays (including
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output of F-keys) to be captured for inclusion in other documents.
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.PP
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This version is for IBM-PC architecture only.
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.SH BUGS
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A network user captures an image of the main console, not his or her own
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screen. The output will usually not be what you expect if the display is in
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hardware scrolling mode, since in that mode the order of the lines in screen
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memory may not be the same as what appears on the screen.
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If you expect to use
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.BR screendump
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to send notes to someone about problems that occur while using
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.BR MINIX
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you must remember to toggle to software scrolling before you make the dump.
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It will also be necessary to use
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.BR su ,
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because
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.BR /dev/mem
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is normally not world readable.
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.SH AUTHOR
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Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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.\" preliminary man file by Al Woodhull (awoodhull@hampshire.edu) 01.08.95
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