robbie@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (G.Robert Arrabito) (06/06/91)
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.
Robert Arrabito,
work address:
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
home address:
18 Alladin Avenue
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M6L 1S5
phone: (416) 244-8195
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robbie@dretor.dciem.dnd.caw8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) (06/06/91)
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: Directory PD1:<MSDOS.SCREEN> Filename Type Length Date Description ============================================== SCRIPT11.ZIP B 15999 900728 Saves console output to a file Keith -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of the MSDOS, MISC and CP/M archives at SIMTEL20 [192.88.110.20] Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil or w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu Uucp: uunet!umich!vela!w8sdz BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND
valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty) (06/06/91)
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! We have one application in our shop that perversely does all of its output through INT 10, fn 9, and is thus immune to all capture programs... (To be fair, I don't think the developer actually coded the INT 10,fn 9 calls [though with these guys you never know; they do seem to be into perversity for its own sake]; rather I think they used some kind of windowing package and the windowing package writes to the screen thus) -- (Another fine mess brought to you by valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu)
ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (06/06/91)
In article <4380@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca> robbie@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (G.Robert Arrabito) writes: > >Anyone out there know of a program which >logs screen output to a file. : In a case like this one, would you please first see the Frequently Asked Questions collection /pc/ts/tsfaq21.arc, and/or the ordinary set of file list of the active ftp sites. If the information in those is insufficient, then let's try anew, ok. The purpose here is not to be unhelpful, but this is one of the questions that keeps repeating so often, that you will benefit best from knowing the standard search method. ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37 School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
robbie@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (G.Robert Arrabito) (06/07/91)
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 <FLAME>. 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
valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty) (06/08/91)
robbie@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (G.Robert Arrabito) writes: >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. I should point out that this is entirely non-trivial. In fact, I don't think it can be done in the (completely) general case. Problem is that characters come in one at a time to INT 10, fn 9, sans any carriage control or screen handling (all of which is done via other INT 10 functions) It would be a task to reconstruct the original screen display. -- (Another fine mess brought to you by valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu)