From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Aug 3 1:10:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0570337B566 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 01:10:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA18316; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 18:09:59 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "ROADRUNNER" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdV18314; Thu Aug 3 18:09:47 2000 Message-ID: <044c01bffd22$cac49720$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> From: "Doug Young" To: "Andrei A. Dergatchev" , "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" References: <06a801bffc9d$73c1a9c0$1600010a@pmr.com> <014e01bffcb8$7d46fed0$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> <20000802215841.A36147@mithrandr.moria.org> <01a201bffcc0$9f2c6370$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> <2000080222 Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 18:13:42 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm positive there's a command line screen capture tool in FreeBSD .... probably even used it a while back. Can't imagine how to use it from a new install though ..... maybe someone can figure out a way to capture on a different machine somehow. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrei A. Dergatchev" To: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 5:58 PM Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view > About scripts to capture screen content - I searched deja and I found > that the most often recommended way to do it is to use XV. > > At http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/ I download some pictures which > were made in this way to compare their sizes with those of Doug. > To use scripts one need to have X running, but then they are about 3-5 > times smaller then those made with camera - probably might be useful > for lite version, esp. when amount of pictures grows to several dozens ? > > Doug Young wrote: > > > Thanks Andrei > > > > I know its a bit poxy right now > > common it's fine. > > > but I'm working on some updates that should > > make it halfway presentable in a week or so. I know FreeBSD has a script > > that lets one capture stuff printed to screen (anyone know what its called & > > how to use it ??) however I don't know that the script thingy is practical > > for > > a new installation. > > [...] > > Existing installation is required to use X-based XV . For "screen" utility I'm > not sure - can't test it at the moment. > > Andrei > > http://x62.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=522229779&CONTEXT=965287304.2084 04502&hitnum=96 > > "You can also run sysinstall in an xterm and use xv to grab that window. That is > what I did when I wrote http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/ which is a > little stale. I won't have time to get to updating it till 1st quarter 2000, > since I am involved with a real book contract." > > http://x62.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=544558149&CONTEXT=965287304.2084 04502&hitnum=81 > > "Also, if you run "screen" first, you can press CTRL-A, H (i believe, don't > quote me). And it'll write a hard copy of the screen to a file. " > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message