Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!steinmetz.UUCP!barnett From: barnett@steinmetz.UUCP (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: Non-dying psterm's for non-root users? ; screen dumps Message-ID: <8712012222.AA01481@grymoire.steinmetz> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 19:23:12 EST Article-I.D.: grymoire.8712012222.AA01481 Posted: Tue Dec 1 19:23:12 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 04:14:58 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 12 > On the color machines, it becomes hit or miss whether the > [screendump] will be correct, and this has happened under all three >window systems. Sometimes the symptoms are a `censored' all-black bar (or >bars) across certain parts of the output; other times in addition to the above >I get little replicated squished versions of the whole screen peppered across >the top of the `normal' screendump (along with the `censored' bars). This will happen is there is any change of the screen while the dump is made. If the clocktool's minute hand moves, the mouse cursor, etc. -- Bruce G. Barnett