Re: Screen dumps which include menus?

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From: John Polstra
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 1990 11:34

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In article <5433@brazos.Rice.edu> C.Eagle@massey.ac.nz writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 65, message 4
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>Does anyone know how to take a dump of a sun screen, which includes a
>pop-up menu?  When a menu is brought up, it appears to lock the scren so
>that screendump/dumpregion etc cannot read it.

No problem.  Try something like this:

	(sleep 5;  screendump >foo) &

You'll have 5 seconds to pop up your menu, then the screen will get dumped.

   John Polstra               jdp@polstra.UUCP
   Polstra & Co., Inc.        ...{uunet,sun,pyramid}!practic!polstra!jdp
   Seattle, WA                (206) 932-6482

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Subject: Re: Screen dumps which include menus?
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