3 screendump \- write current console screen to standard output
8 prints the contents of the console screen to standard output. It does this
9 by reading the screen memory, skipping over attribute bytes, omitting
10 trailing blanks and inserting a newline character at the end of each line.
12 The most common use of
14 is with output redirected to a file. This allows screen displays (including
15 output of F-keys) to be captured for inclusion in other documents.
17 This version is for IBM-PC architecture only.
19 A network user captures an image of the main console, not his or her own
20 screen. The output will usually not be what you expect if the display is in
21 hardware scrolling mode, since in that mode the order of the lines in screen
22 memory may not be the same as what appears on the screen.
25 to send notes to someone about problems that occur while using
27 you must remember to toggle to software scrolling before you make the dump.
28 It will also be necessary to use
32 is normally not world readable.
34 Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
35 .\" preliminary man file by Al Woodhull (awoodhull@hampshire.edu) 01.08.95