Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 16:08:43 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/scrshot Makefile scrshot.1 scrshot.c Message-ID: <20010518160843.C65354@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20010518135924.A10772@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@FreeBSD.org on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:59:24PM %2B0100 References: <no.id> <200105180931.f4I9VwW29741@vega.vega.com> <20010518135924.A10772@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:59:24PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:31:58PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > > nik 2001/05/18 02:00:52 PDT
> > >
> > > Added files:
> > > usr.bin/scrshot Makefile scrshot.1 scrshot.c
> > > Log:
> > > New scrshot utility, using the CONS_SCRSHOT ioctl. Usage is
> > >
> > > scrshot /dev/ttyv0 > shot.scr
> > >
> > > See the shot2{txt,png} utilities (soon to be) in the ports collection.
> >
> > BTW, wouldn't it better to integrate this functionality into
> > existing vidcontrol(8) utility instead of introducing yet another
> > syscons-specific tool?
>
> I'm easy if someone wants to do the work, but I do have one comments.
> vidcontrol is used to set options in syscons, scrshot pulls data from
> syscons. By analogy, vidcontrol is "poke", scrshot is "peek".
>
By analogy, kbdcontrol(1) both sets the keyboard and pulls data (-d).
Cheers,
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