Hmm, smells like VNC (http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/).
Or do you want to capture the console?
The biggest problem is security. You are not supposed to be
able to do this :-)
You might be able to hack something like GNU screen or
X-term so that it would listen for requests to get the
screen information.
-Jake
--- santhosh bhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Sir,
>
> I am an engineering student from India. I have taken up a small
> project on networking. I want to do it on linux platform. I need some
> technical information about my project. So if you could assist me
> then it would be a great help for me. The project detail is as
> follows.
>
> In a network of autonomous computers(which have linux as operating
> system), I want to write a program in C such that it assists a user
> in front of any computer to capture the screen of any other computer
> connected in the network.
>
> The main problem for me is that I don�t know how the information gets
> displayed on the screen in linux platform. If I can get the buffer
> containing the information being displayed on the screen, then it is
> easier to transfer that information over the network to any computer
> using socket programming. Linux does not support the accessing of vdu
> memory. I was also told that I need to go through curses library. But
> I don�t know how to proceed to access the information being displayed
> on the screen.
>
> So I kindly request you to help me and give some technical details in
> this regard so that I can complete this project. I will be keenly
> waiting for your reply.
>
>
> Yours sincerely
>
>
> Santhosh
>
>
>
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