From owner-freebsd-doc Wed May 16 7:52:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (unknown [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C157437B422; Wed, 16 May 2001 07:52:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4GEq3r86725; Thu, 17 May 2001 00:52:03 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from sue) Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 00:52:03 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Nik Clayton Cc: Randy Pratt , bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-docs@FreeBSD.ORG, Doug Young , Murray Stokely , Jim Mock Subject: Re: Automatic text screenshots Message-ID: <20010517005203.H26123@welearn.com.au> Mail-Followup-To: Sue Blake , Nik Clayton , Randy Pratt , bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-docs@FreeBSD.ORG, Doug Young , Murray Stokely , Jim Mock References: <01051513051703.00373@k6-2.weeble.com> <200105151727.f4FHRos64816@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <01051515135804.00373@k6-2.weeble.com> <20010516103515.A38101@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010516103515.A38101@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:35:16AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:35:16AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > It would be possible to add a new ioctl to syscons that dumped this text > video memory out to a userland program. > > I've got some old software I got 90% of the way to completing which > might make your work much easier. Specifically, > > 1. Some patches to syscons which add this ioctl -- these patches are > against 2.2.x, but syscons hasn't changed drastically in the past > few years. > > 2. A userland program, "scrshot", which you run like so; > > scrshot tty-device > filename That sounds fantastic, Nik! Just what I've been wanting for years. It could be a big help with support, too. One screenshot is worth a hundred confusing emails. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message