Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 17:04:20 +0300 (EEST) From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> To: nik@FreeBSD.ORG (Nik Clayton) Cc: sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG (Maxim Sobolev), nik@FreeBSD.ORG (Nik Clayton), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/scrshot Makefile scrshot.1 scrshot.c Message-ID: <200105181404.f4IE4pD00688@vega.vega.com> In-Reply-To: <20010518135924.A10772@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> from "Nik Clayton" at May 18, 2001 01:59:24 PM
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> On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:31:58PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > > nik 2001/05/18 02:00:52 PDT
> > >=20
> > > Added files:
> > > usr.bin/scrshot Makefile scrshot.1 scrshot.c=20
> > > Log:
> > > New scrshot utility, using the CONS_SCRSHOT ioctl. Usage is
> > > =20
> > > scrshot /dev/ttyv0 > shot.scr
> > > =20
> > > See the shot2{txt,png} utilities (soon to be) in the ports collection.
> >=20
> > 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=20
> syscons. By analogy, vidcontrol is "poke", scrshot is "peek".
Actually vidcontrol(8) has some features to pull data from
syscons. For example: `vidcontrol -i mode' gets data from
the driver about available video modes and prints them in
human readable format.
I'm ready to do the work, BTW.
-Maxim
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