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NAME

6       conspy - virtual console spy tool
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SYNOPSIS

9       conspy [ options ] [ console ]
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DESCRIPTION

12       Conspy allows the user to take control of a Linux virtual console.  The
13       user can see what is displayed on the console and their keystrokes  are
14       sent to it.
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16       To  exit  from conspy press the escape key three times in quick succes‐
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COMMAND LINE

20       -V, --version
21              Print the program's version and exit.
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23       -v, --viewonly
24              Don't send keystrokes to the virtual console.
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26       console
27              If supplied, console must be a number in the range 1 .. 63, cor‐
28              responding   to   the   virtual   console  device  /dev/tty1  ..
29              /dev/tty63.  If not supplied the currently active  virtual  con‐
30              sole is opened and tracked.
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LIMITATIONS

33       Conspy  will not pass keystrokes to a virtual console whose keyboard is
34       configured to send scan codes.  X configures its  keyboard  like  this.
35       If  the  terminal  does  not have at least 64 colours no colour will be
36       displayed.  Conspy ignores the mouse.  Conspy  may  display  some  non-
37       ASCII  characters  incorrectly.  Conspy does not handle displays larger
38       than 16000 characters (eg 200 rows x 80 columns).
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40       Conspy depends on terminfo and curses working correctly for your termi‐
41       nal,  and  sometimes  they  don't.  Konsole is/was one example of where
42       they don't.  Typing control-L will redraw  the  screen,  which  usually
43       fixes  the mess created.  It also sends a control-L to the virtual con‐
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FILES

47       /dev/ttyX, /dev/vc/X
48              The characters typed are sent to this device.  The latter is for
49              devfs. It is only used if the former does not exist.
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51       /dev/vcsaX, /dev/vcc/aX
52              The  display of the virtual console is read from here.  The lat‐
53              ter is for devfs. It is only used if the former does not exist.
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AUTHOR

56       Russell Stuart, <russell-conspy@stuart.id.au>.
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60Version 1.7                        Aug 2009                          CONSPY(1)
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