In message <email@hidden>, Derick Centeno write
s:
>First, (I like your comment on Unix being selective regarding who it's
>friends are), bash has the easy facility called "set" which when
>invoked from $ spills out all the variable environment settings it is
>using for the terminal, or console you are working from. It may not be
>the answer, but merely a step to it.
I know about "set". :)
>Second, you might want to reconsider running x11.
I think you've misunderstood the reason for the question.
My actual goal is to have a screenshot of "the text console", to put in a
book.
It is not to decide what the best way to run a desktop is.
>Any one of these ways would work, what will matter will be the goal to
>which you are aiming. I'm not sure that the designers of Unix
>developed these character based apps with pixel collection, analysis or
>review in mind, what nearly 40-50 years ago? You may have to relegate
>yourself to hex, and really like it.
Uh-huh. Well, that brings up the obvious question: Is the console font in
Darwin the same as any standard X bitmap font?
-s
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