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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
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Subject: Re: How can I dump a LARGE window to a file?
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.175607@wsl.dec.com>
Date: 4 Apr 91 01:56:07 GMT
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In article <1991Apr4.012212.7135@am.dsir.govt.nz>, tony@tui.marcam.dsir.govt.nz (Tony Cooper) writes:
|> xwd, xsnap, xgrabsc all dump windows to a file but they all suffer from
|> the problem that they only dump the part of a window that is visible on
|> the screen.

Unless you have backing store on, the contents of the not visible parts
of a window are undefined.

-- 
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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