how to capture output of topas command to text file by shell ???

I tried to do it by below method , but it is different to topas's output .
The output file include ansi code as moves cursor up # lines , moves cursor up # lines ......
someone can help me ???

1. (sleep 6; echo q)|topas -p 10 -P > ./topas.out
2. by shell
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topas -p 10 -P > ./topas.out 2>&1 &
TOPAS=$!
sleep 6
kill -9 $TOPAS
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have you ever tried using nmon

NMON
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork...s/analyze_aix/

less impact on your system and can be run to collect stats.

also look at this
nmon_analyser
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork...ser/index.html

the resoult of nmon is not mine.
if you run nmon & topas in two windows , you will see different as process for these two utility .