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From: barnett@steinmetz.UUCP (Bruce Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re:  Non-dying psterm's for non-root users? ; screen dumps
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Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 19:23:12 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  1 19:23:12 1987
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> 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