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From: Chris McGee <newton688@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] How to take a portion of a screenshot
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 00:06:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6D3B924C-6701-4345-8768-98D7927DD9DD@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4776dad7f2f6aacb2eb25af4749383ba@9netics.com>

I tried to write an rc script that would make a screen video as an animated gif. I have something that almost works, but ran into a few problems/limitations.

* I can’t seem to find a way to have an incrementing loop counter in rc shell (best I could do is check the size of a growing list variable)
* The gif command barfs when the GIF is any larger than a few megabytes due to an allocation error
* I couldn’t think of a good way to name the image files so that they can be sorted into the correct sequence as input to togif

I’ll try banging my head on the solution again tomorrow. I’m hoping that either it can be a one-liner of rc shell scripting or put into a full utility script (e.g. recscreen) that anyone could use.

Thanks,
Chris

> On Nov 23, 2016, at 3:07 PM, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote:
> 
>> it's one of the reasons I'm liking plan 9.
> 
> ingenious glenda.
> <window.jpg>




  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-24  5:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-23 12:28 Chris McGee
2016-11-23 15:34 ` Adriano Verardo
2016-11-23 16:06 ` Richard Miller
2016-11-23 16:28   ` hiro
2016-11-23 18:39   ` Chris McGee
2016-11-23 20:07     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2016-11-23 20:31       ` Benjamin Purcell
2016-11-23 20:36         ` James A. Robinson
2016-11-23 20:41           ` hiro
2016-11-23 20:56             ` Skip Tavakkolian
     [not found]               ` <CAEVxPTOrWFf2hd-nWDeP8GE5qSjhqB6Ox=W1C9FhrVt9S70V-g@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                 ` <CAEVxPTP5L2=SpYEn96QUpsZ1VDjUwTKUzxCNp+WVoJqVCDocvg@mail.gmail.com>
2016-11-23 21:30                   ` Jules Merit
2016-11-23 21:57                     ` Steve Simon
2016-11-23 22:16                       ` Jules Merit
2016-11-28  6:30                     ` erik quanstrom
2016-11-23 20:48           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2016-11-24  5:06       ` Chris McGee [this message]
2016-11-24  7:23         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2016-11-24  8:56         ` cinap_lenrek
2016-11-26  4:23           ` Chris McGee
2016-11-26  7:27             ` Skip Tavakkolian

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