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Subject: Re: Non-X screen capture?
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Frits Westra wrote:

> Do you have any suggestions for a non-X screen capture program that can 
> be  invoked when the text to be captured is already on screen?

Use vidcontrol with options -p or -P, e.g.

     vidcontrol -P > dump

See manpage for more information.

Regards Björn