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From: 2damn <2damn@nospam.com>
Subject: Re: Screen Capture
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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:50:13 GMT
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On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:50:19 +0000, John Santos wrote:
> I take it you want to "screen scrape" the VT520?
If I am using the correct terms, yes.
> Does the 520 have a "print screen" feature? (Most/all of the earlier VT
> series terminals did.) If so, you could direct the "print screen" to
> the terminal's printer port, and connect the printer port via a null
> modem cable to a computer, for example to a spare serial port on your
> Debian Unix system. Run a suitable serial-port application that is
> capturing input on the 2nd serial port (say, for example, C-Kermit), and
> press the "print" key (probably F2) on the VT520 keyboard, or send the
> VT520 the escape sequence to invoke the "print screen" function. The
> screen contents should show up in the 2nd instance of Kermit's log file
> as 24 lines of 80 characters (or whatever size you've got the VT520 set
> to), just as if it was sent to a real serial printer.
I hope to capture screen data from a kermit script without manually
pressing a key. Thank you for your response. I am still trying to find
something that works. See my reply above for my current attempts.