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 captured 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
     toggle  to  software scrolling before you make the dump.  It
     will also be necessary to use su, because /dev/mem  is  nor-
     mally not world readable.


AUTHOR

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