.TH SCREENDUMP 1 "2002-02-24" "" "Linux Console"

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

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B screendump 
[
.I N
]

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

.SH NOTES
For security reasons,
.B screendump
uses linux devices "virtual console screen" and 
"virtual console screen with attributes" to give access for screendump.
.P
On pre-DevFS systems, you should ensure these files exist, using
.LP
.RS
cd /dev
for i in 0 1 2 3 ...; do
.br
	mknod vcs$i c 7 $i
.br
	mknod vcsa$i c 7 `expr 128 + $i`
.br
done
.RE

(filling in the ellipses) and give the device files appropriate
permissions, or run 
.B screendump
as root.
.P
On DevFS systems, the /dev/vcc/?? devices will automatically be present.
.P
.SH SEE ALSO
setterm(1)

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