> Please let me know if this is the wrong place to ask my question, and, if so,
> where a better place might be. Thanks.
> 
> I'm the maintainer of the BRLTTY project [http://mielke.cc/brltty/]. BRLTTY
> operates braille displays for blind users. We're trying to make it as
> functional on Solaris as possible.
> 
> One of the things that BRLTTY can do, assuming that the host operating system
> provides the capability, is passively monitor the content of a text-mode 
> screen
> and present it on the user's braille display. Does Solaris provide a mechanism
> for inspecting the content of the screen? If not, is there a way, perhaps 
> using
> something like /dev/kmem, to locate a memory-resident copy of what's currently
> on the screen?

Unless you need to monitor the console output, seems like GNU screen provides 
a lot of the functionality - it has complete control of what is displayed on 
the screen. It even allows you to multiplex between several terminal screens.



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