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From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/scrshot Makefile scrshot.1 scrshot.c
To: nik@FreeBSD.ORG (Nik Clayton)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 17:04:20 +0300 (EEST)
Cc: sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG (Maxim Sobolev),
	nik@FreeBSD.ORG (Nik Clayton), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG,
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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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