CLASSES=none
PSTAMP=q20140728004822
LICFILE=cddl.txt
LICURL=http://www.opensource.org/licenses/CDDL-1.0
LICINFO=Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) 1.0
DESC=vtecapture is an enhanced version of vte, which allows one to capture its content as text incl. ANSI escape codes to keep color and other text attribute information by just clicking the right mouse button. Such termshots can be viewed using e.g. 'less -R' or simply 'cat' in an terminal, which supports the corresponding ANSI escape code sequences. Thus there is no need to make a graphical screenshoot with tools like gnome-screenshot and no need to use a platform dependend GUI tool to actually view them.  Usually one can use typescript or script to capture the textual output of an application, however, this doesn't work for curses based tools or BIOS output, since they usually just send control sequences to the terminal, which position the cursor, set text attributes and than send the string to write at the current curso position.  Since the termshots are text based, it is also much easier to produce diffs or change information, which should not be shown to the public. Furthermore, since the font of the display can be changed, termshots are scalable - traditional pixel based screenshots don't offer this. Finally, termshots can be stored much more efficient without loosing any information. E.g. a screenshot of a 100x31 terminal containing a BIOS setting screen takes about 44 KB in png format. Converting it to a gif may result in a size of ~28 KB (64%). Taking a termshot from it (IPMI SOL) results into a text file of ~3.5 KB (8%). Gzipping that file results into ~ 0.5 KB and thus finally into a reduction in size of ~98%+  wrt. to the png screenshot! To view such a file one may simply issue a 'gunzip -c file' on its terminal of choice.
BASEDIR=/usr
VENDOR=LINOFEE, http://www.linofee.org
EMAIL=developers@linofee.org
CATEGORY=utils,gnome,application
NAME=Virtual Terminal capture utility
SERIALNUM=001
VERSION=1.0
ARCH=sparc
PKG=LNFvtecapture