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From: Amos Shapir amos@nso...
Subject: Screen capture ?
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 12:04:52 -0500

In article <9603180131.AA09703@tao...> you wrote:
: Reply-to: jm@uni...

: How does one capture an image of the whole screen when 8 1/2 is running
: (like bpr p. 216 in the volume 2) ?

/dev/screen is a bitmap image of the whole screen; you can even fb/9v it,
but (at least on a PC) it's got the bits in each byte reversed, so will
need some conversion to be seen right.

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