[TriLUG] ASCII screenshot

[Ed Warnicke]

Speaking of which... does anyone have a good utility for undoing 
all of the nonsense that script picks up along the way?  The carriage 
returns aren't hard to strip out, but I haven't gotten aroudn to putting
something together to deal correctly with the backspaces, up arrow
characters, tab characters, etc that are a routine part of the shell
experience.

Ed
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 20:54, Mike Johnson wrote:
> Chris Knowles [knowlesc at telocity.com] 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.
> 
> What are you really after here?  Run a command and save the output?  If
> so, look at 'script'.
> 
> Basically, run 'script /tmp/output.txt', then run your command, and hit
> 'ctrl-d' to exit.  You'll then have the output in /tmp/output.txt.
> 
> Mike
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