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Date:      Thu, 2 Oct 1997 15:58:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Drew Derbyshire <ahd@kew.com>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu
Subject:   Re: help with tutorial = printscreen during boot
Message-ID:  <199710021958.PAA09937@pandora.hh.kew.com>

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> i was wondering it it would be a major undertaking to get the printscreen
> key to work while in the visual boot editor? and maybe also the non-visual
> editor?
>
> the reason i ask is that i would like to be able to take snapshots of what
> i am doing and scan them into a turtorial i am making for my school.
>
> i figure enableing printscreen wouldn't be as difficult as having it dump
> the screen to a file in the root directory...

I would boot in serial console mode with the console actually a terminal
emulator such as kermit that supports session and/or screen capture.  No
programming required ...

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Drew Derbyshire                 Internet:       ahd@kew.com
Kendra Electronic Wonderworks   Telephone:      781-279-9812

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 and German to my horse."                       - Charles V of France




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