minix man page for screendu

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NAME
       screendump - write current console screen to standard output

SYNOPSIS
       screendump

DESCRIPTION
       Screendump  prints  the	contents  of  the  console  screen  to	standard output.  It does this by reading the screen memory, skipping over
       attribute bytes, omitting trailing blanks and inserting a newline character at the end of each line.

NOTES
       The most common use of screendump is with output redirected to a file. This allows screen displays (including output of F-keys) to be  cap-
       tured for inclusion in other documents.

       This version is for IBM-PC architecture only.

BUGS
       A  network  user  captures  an image of the main console, not his or her own screen.  The output will usually not be what you expect if the
       display is in hardware scrolling mode, since in that mode the order of the lines in screen memory may not be the same as  what  appears	on
       the screen.  If you expect to use screendump to send notes to someone about problems that occur while using MINIX you must remember to tog-
       gle to software scrolling before you make the dump.  It will also be necessary to use su, because /dev/mem is normally not world readable.

AUTHOR
       Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)

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