[TriLUG] ASCII screenshot

John Beimler john at radiomind.com
Thu May 23 20:18:15 EDT 2002


On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 19:42, Chris Knowles wrote:
> Is there a way on a box without X, and without the ability to ssh to it,
> to take a screenshot?  Basically what I want is a "picture" of the text
> on the screen.  
> 
> (So a txt file that has the screen in it.)
> 
> I'd be really surprised if there is such a thing, but I had the need for
> it today, so I thought I'd ask.
> 

take a look at screen, doesn't do exactly what you want, but the logging
feature will do about what you are asking, I've used it for that feature
before.  If all you need is logging and its not a curses app, you can
try script too.

Peace

john

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