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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
Subject: Re: want: screen capturer
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.135355.16618@midway.uchicago.edu>
Keywords: want, screen capturer
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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1991 13:53:55 GMT

w8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) writes:

>robbie@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (G.Robert Arrabito) writes:
>> Anyone out there know of a program which logs screen output to a
>> file.  In particular, I'm looking for the ms-dos equivalent of the
>> Unix "script" program. I want to only capture text that is written to
>> the screen; I'm not interested in any graphics characters that are
>> written to the screen.  >Also I want to capture the text regardless of
				^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> how it is put on the screen, i.e. not only capture the text that is
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> written to the bios but also capture the text that is written
>> directly to video memory.

>If you had looked in the WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL [192.88.110.20] file
>list you would have found:

Well, yes, but that would be too easy.  (To look before asking)

But, seriously, SCRIPT (a very fine program, mind you, that I have been
using for some time now) won't capture direct video writes.  It's not
clear whether or not it captures output to CON that is other than stdout
or stderr (the dox aren't clear, and my testing has been so far inconclusive)

Believe me, if there is a beast out there that will do that (capture all
video writes and make sense out of them), I want it!  We have one
application in our shop that perversely does all of its output through
INT 10, fn 9, and is thus immune to all capture programs...

(To be fair, I don't think the developer actually coded the INT 10,fn 9
calls [though with these guys you never know; they do seem to be into
perversity for its own sake]; rather I think they used some kind of
windowing package and the windowing package writes to the screen thus)
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