SCREENDUMP(1)

NAME
screendump - dump the contents of a virtual console to stdout

SYNOPSIS
screendump [ N ]

DESCRIPTION
The screendump command dumps the contents of virtual console N , (or the current console if N is omitted) to standard out.

NOTES
For security reasons, screendump uses linux devices "virtual console screen" and "virtual console screen with attributes" to give access for screendump.

On pre-DevFS systems, you should ensure these files exist, using

    cd /dev for i in 0 1 2 3 ...; do
        mknod vcs$i c 7 $i
        mknod vcsa$i c 7 `expr 128 + $i`
    done
(filling in the ellipses) and give the device files appropriate permissions, or run screendump as root.

On DevFS systems, the /dev/vcc/?? devices will automatically be present.

SEE ALSO
setterm(1)

AUTHORS
Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>
Manpage by Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org>