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SCREENDUMP(8)               System Manager's Manual              SCREENDUMP(8)

NAME
       screendump - write current console screen to standard output

SYNOPSIS
       screendump

DESCRIPTION
       Screendump  prints  the  contents  of  the  console  screen to standard
       output.  It does this by  reading  the  screen  memory,  skipping  over
       attribute  bytes,  omitting  trailing  blanks  and  inserting a newline
       character at the end of each line.

NOTES
       The most common use of screendump is with output redirected to a  file.
       This allows screen displays (including output of F-keys) to be captured
       for inclusion in other documents.

       This version is for IBM-PC architecture only.

BUGS
       A network user captures an image of the main console, not  his  or  her
       own  screen.   The  output  will  usually not be what you expect if the
       display is in hardware scrolling mode, since in that mode the order  of
       the  lines  in screen memory may not be the same as what appears on the
       screen.  If you expect to use screendump to send notes to someone about
       problems  that  occur  while using MINIX you must remember to toggle to
       software scrolling before you make the dump.  It will also be necessary
       to use su, because /dev/mem is normally not world readable.

AUTHOR
       Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)

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