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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 08:26:22 +0000
From: Dennis Ritchie <dmr@bell-labs.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] on a lighter note
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rob pike wrote:
> 
> > How does one make screenshots of plan9 (using the in-house utilities and
> > not writing a program of his/her own)?
> 
>         % togif < /dev/screen > screenshot.gif
> 
> and variations.

One variation is

  #!/bin/rc
  wid=`{cat /dev/winid}
  echo snarf this:
  echo ' cat /dev/wsys/'$wid'/window >x.pic; togif x.pic >x.gif'
  echo Then make picture;
  echo then send snarfed string to a non-overlapping window.

if you want to snapshot just a particular window instead of the whole
screen.  Parameterize or use a pipe to avoid named files at leisure.