Thus spoke Prasad Paranjape ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> Can anybody tell me how to get screen shots in Linux
> console?I want to send the results of some program run
> by e-mail to somebody else.Well I do not want to
> direct the output of the run to a file.
> 

To take screen shots in a virtual console, use cat to save the contents of
the device file corresponding to that virtual console, these files are in the
`/dev' directory, and are in the format `vcsi<number>', where "number is the
number of the virtual console".

For ex., if the target console is the first virtual console (which you
would see by typing [ALT]-[F1]), the device to cat is `/dev/vcs1'.

To take a screen shot of the first virtual console, and save it to a
file called `virtual1', type:

$ cat /dev/vcs1 > virtual1 [RET]

NOTE: You have to be Superuser to access these files.

-Rupesh


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