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[9] | 1 | .TH SCREENDUMP 8
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| 2 | .SH NAME
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| 3 | screendump \- write current console screen to standard output
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| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS
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| 5 | .B screendump
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| 6 | .SH DESCRIPTION
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| 7 | .B Screendump
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| 8 | prints the contents of the console screen to standard output. It does this
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| 9 | by reading the screen memory, skipping over attribute bytes, omitting
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| 10 | trailing blanks and inserting a newline character at the end of each line.
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| 11 | .SH NOTES
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| 12 | The most common use of
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| 13 | .BR screendump
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| 14 | is with output redirected to a file. This allows screen displays (including
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| 15 | output of F-keys) to be captured for inclusion in other documents.
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| 16 | .PP
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| 17 | This version is for IBM-PC architecture only.
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| 18 | .SH BUGS
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| 19 | A network user captures an image of the main console, not his or her own
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| 20 | screen. The output will usually not be what you expect if the display is in
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| 21 | hardware scrolling mode, since in that mode the order of the lines in screen
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| 22 | memory may not be the same as what appears on the screen.
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| 23 | If you expect to use
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| 24 | .BR screendump
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| 25 | to send notes to someone about problems that occur while using
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| 26 | .BR MINIX
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| 27 | you must remember to toggle to software scrolling before you make the dump.
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| 28 | It will also be necessary to use
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| 29 | .BR su ,
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| 30 | because
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| 31 | .BR /dev/mem
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| 32 | is normally not world readable.
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| 33 | .SH AUTHOR
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| 34 | Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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| 35 | .\" preliminary man file by Al Woodhull (awoodhull@hampshire.edu) 01.08.95
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