Screen dump of multiple windows in curses

[Doug Rudoff]

In article <1991Mar20.010749.6482 at MDI.COM> rudoff at MDI.COM (Doug Rudoff) writes:
>
>I have a curses program that has mulitple windows displayed at the
>same time and I would like to do a screen dump of what appears on the
>screen into a file.
>
>I thought by using curscr I would be able to look at what is actually
>displayed on the screen, but when I try to use curscr, the data is
>null (I looked at curscr->_y[0] and it was NULL).
>
>I thought curscr held the current screen image; I obviously was wrong.
>
>So can anyone give me a clue on how to get the screen image?

I should include that I'm using cursesX (X/open curses) on a
DECstation running Ultrix 3.1.

I looked at the source code for Berkeley curses and there seems to be
something called _virtscr which I think would do what I want, but it
apparently does not exist in DEC's cursesX.


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