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