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<STRONG><A HREF="scr_dump.5.html">scr_dump(5)</A></STRONG> File formats <STRONG><A HREF="scr_dump.5.html">scr_dump(5)</A></STRONG>
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-ncurses5-_legacy_">ncurses5 (legacy)</a></H3><PRE>
- The screen-dump feature was added to ncurses in June 1995. While there
+ The screen-dump feature was added to <EM>ncurses</EM> in June 1995. While there
were fixes and improvements in succeeding years, the basic scheme was
unchanged:
<STRONG>o</STRONG> Shading is used to identify <EM>X/Open</EM> <EM>Enhanced</EM> <EM>Curses</EM> material,
relating to interfaces included to provide enhanced capabilities
for applications originally written to be compiled on systems
- based on the UNIX operating system. Therefore, the features
+ based on the Unix operating system. Therefore, the features
described may not be present on systems that conform to <STRONG>XPG4</STRONG> <STRONG>or</STRONG>
<STRONG>to</STRONG> <STRONG>earlier</STRONG> <STRONG>XPG</STRONG> <STRONG>releases</STRONG>. The relevant reference pages may
provide additional or more specific portability warnings about
That is, the feature was likely introduced in SVr2 (1984), and improved
in SVr3 (1987). The Solaris curses source has no magic number for SVr4
- (1989). Other operating systems (AIX and HPUX) use a magic number
+ (1989). Other operating systems (AIX and HP-UX) use a magic number
which would correspond to this definition:
/* curses screen dump magic number */
big-endian hardware, the magic number is written with the high-order
byte first, e.g.,
- 01 35
+ \001\035
After the magic number, the <STRONG>WINDOW</STRONG> structure and line-data are written
in binary format. While the magic number used by the Unix systems can
<STRONG>o</STRONG> AIX (51817 bytes)
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> HPUX (90093 bytes)
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> HP-UX (90093 bytes)
<STRONG>o</STRONG> Solaris 10 (13273 bytes)
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> ncurses5 (12888 bytes)
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> <EM>ncurses</EM>5 (12888 bytes)
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Solaris">Solaris</a></H3><PRE>
<STRONG>o</STRONG> finally, lines as done by other implementations.
-</PRE><H2><a name="h2-EXAMPLE
">EXAMPLE</a></H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-EXAMPLE
S">EXAMPLES</a></H2><PRE>
Given a simple program which writes text to the screen (and for the
sake of example, limiting the screen-size to 10x20):
ensure they are not overlooked.
<STRONG>o</STRONG> Attributes are written in escaped curly braces, e.g., "\{BOLD}",
- and may include a color-pair (C1 or C2 in this example).
+ and may include a color pair (C1 or C2 in this example).
<STRONG>o</STRONG> The parameters in the header are written out only if they are
nonzero. When reading back, order does not matter.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-AUTHORS">AUTHORS</a></H2><PRE>
Thomas E. Dickey
- extended screen-dump format for ncurses 6.0 (2015)
+ extended screen-dump format for <EM>ncurses</EM> 6.0 (2015)
Eric S. Raymond
- screen dump feature in ncurses 1.9.2d (1995)
+ screen dump feature in <EM>ncurses</EM> 1.9.2d (1995)
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
-ncurses 6.4 2023-
09-30 <STRONG><A HREF="scr_dump.5.html">scr_dump(5)</A></STRONG>
+ncurses 6.4 2023-
12-16 <STRONG><A HREF="scr_dump.5.html">scr_dump(5)</A></STRONG>
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<li><a href="#h3-NetBSD">NetBSD</a></li>
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-<li><a href="#h2-EXAMPLE">EXAMPLE</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a></li>
<li><a href="#h2-AUTHORS">AUTHORS</a></li>
<li><a href="#h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></li>
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