NAME

       screendump - dump the contents of a virtual console to stdout

SYNOPSIS

       screendump [options] [N]

DESCRIPTION

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

       Just saying
              cat /dev/vcsN
       has a similar effect.

OPTIONS

       -V, --version
              print version number.

       -h, --help
              print this usage message.

NOTES

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

       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.

AUTHORS

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

SEE ALSO

       setterm(1)

kbd                                                2002-02-24                                      SCREENDUMP(1)