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From: Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com>
Subject: Re: Screen Capture
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> I can't seem to figure out how to make a screen capture.

xwd > screen_dump_file

Then move the mouse curser to the window you want to dump
and click the left button.

"man xwd" for more details

If you then need to convert the file to gif/jpeg/PostScript/whatever
the xv program can do that.