Re: Display test suite

[Andreas Schwab]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> This makes me wonder if a Linux console has the ability to make
> a textual screenshot as an array of characters.

It does.

  7 char        Virtual console capture devices
                  0 = /dev/vcs          Current vc text contents
                  1 = /dev/vcs1         tty1 text contents
                    ...
                 63 = /dev/vcs63        tty63 text contents
                128 = /dev/vcsa         Current vc text/attribute contents
                129 = /dev/vcsa1        tty1 text/attribute contents
                    ...
                191 = /dev/vcsa63       tty63 text/attribute contents

                NOTE: These devices permit both read and write access.

Andreas.

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