From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 14 8:54:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 695A815353 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 08:54:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA75975; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:13:18 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:13:17 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: oliver.fromme@heim3.tu-clausthal.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syscons extension: "propellers" Message-ID: <19991214151317.B73952@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <41084.945172605@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <43878.945175372@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <43878.945175372@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 02:42:52PM +0200 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 02:42:52PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:56:45 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > YES! This comes up at least once a month on the -questions mailing > > list. :-) > > I should have been more specific. People are dead keen on these two > features: > > 1) dump an ascii capture of the screen to a file. > 2) dump the entire scrollback buffer to a file. We need more than just an ASCII capture. Grabbing the colour information is also very useful. This lets you make full colour pictures of things like sysinstall. If anyone's interested, I've still got the old patches to syscons (which were mostly the work of a third party -- I'm damned if I can find out who sent them to me in my mail archive though) and a little utility that converts from the PC text mode screen format (each char described by 2 bytes, 1st byte is ASCII value, second byte is colour, where top nybble is background colour, bottom nybble is foreground colour). It also reads and decodes the same font files that syscons uses, so the GIF it outputs is as near as damn it identical to what was on the screen originally. Source code available free to a good home :-) N -- If you want to imagine the future, imagine a tennis shoe stamping on a penguin's face forever. --- with apologies to George Orwell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message