Re: tlug: screen capture for console

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 27 May 1998, NIIBE Yutaka wrote:

> Scott Stone writes:
>  > Is there a program for linux that can capture whatever's on the CONSOLE
>  > screen?  ie, if I have a dos program running in vty1, I'd like a program
>  > that can run in vty2 and capture the screen in vty1.  Possible?
> 
> How about "cat /dev/vcs1"?

That would work, if it was just text.  But, say I have a program doing
something in VGA (under dos/dosemu), and I want to capture the graphics...

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
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