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From: ee5391aa@hydra.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax)
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Subject: Re: Capturing output
Keywords: script redirect printer output
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Date: 12 Jul 90 04:19:03 GMT
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In article <10300@stiatl.UUCP> klb@stiatl.UUCP (Kathy Ball) writes:
>I'm looking for a utility which works like 'script' in Un*x
>(or 'dribble' in Lisp), which allows you to capture everything which
>is displayed on the screen in a file.  Anybody have such a program?

Kathy, others have mentioned some "screen capture" utilities; I'll not
go in that direction, except to note that any "automatic screen capturer"
would have to know when a program is writing to the screen, and if said
program doesn't use the standard DOS calls for screen writing (and many
don't), automatic capturers couldn't have any way of knowing when they're
supposed to do their thing.

If you are willing to upgrade from messdos to 4dos, there's a TEE function
similar to the UN*X tee that allows you to pipe a standard output to both
a file and a standard input (such as a screen lister or printer verb).

Have you considered attaching a video recorder to your CRT?   ;^)

						d


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