Path: utzoo!dciem!robbie From: robbie@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (G.Robert Arrabito) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: want: screen capturer Keywords: want, screen capturer, off Message-ID: <4384@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca> Date: 7 Jun 91 14:26:06 GMT References: <4380@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca> <6831@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1991Jun6.135355.16618@midway.uchicago.edu> Organization: Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine Lines: 54 In article <1991Jun6.135355.16618@midway.uchicago.edu> valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty) writes: >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! ----------- OK sorry for causing the . In my message I neglected to say that I wasn't aware of any program that captures text that is written directly to the video memory. I apologize for this. However I think I was explicit enough to indicate what I wanted. As far as I can tell "script" from Simtel doesn't capture text that is written to the video!! It only reads from the Bios. So going back to my original posting if anyone knows of such a screep capturer which reads from video memory then I would apprieciate getting a copy of it. Robert Arrabito, Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine 1133 Sheppard Aveneue West P.O. Box 2000 North York, Ontario, Canada M3M 3B9 phone: (416) 635-2033 fax (416) 635-2104 {decvax,attcan,watmath,...}!utzoo!dciem!robbie uunet!csri.toronto.edu!dciem!robbie or nrcaer!dciem!robbie robbie@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca