Paul, Try cat /dev/vcsX or /dev/vcsaX > filename (X being the number of the VC that you want to dump).
I believe the difference between the two has to do with the VCSA handling ASCII differently (don't really know). Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Miller wrote: > > That is X, I need something for a virtual consoles... and it probably > should work in xterm also. > > --- > Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, finger for public PGP key > > On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Jean-Michel Rouet wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > > > > How can I dumb the console screen to a file via a bash shell command (or > > > program)? > > > > > > > man xwd > > > > man import (in ImageMagick package) > > > > -- > > Jean-Michel Rouet (thesard Dpt ITI) | Tel : +33 298 001 730 > > ENST de Bretagne | email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 29285 Brest Cedex | > > France | > > http://www-iti.enst-bretagne.fr/~rouet/ > > > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
