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From: vgopal@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (venu.p.gopal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 640K is Killing my Ability to Capture Screens
Keywords: DOS, WordPerfect, 640K Screen Capture
Message-ID: <5076@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Nov 89 00:45:51 GMT
References: <3990@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Reply-To: vgopal@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (venu.p.gopal,ix,)
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In article <3990@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> keegan@sunbarney.crd.ge.com (James G Keegan) writes:
!I document PC software with WordPerfect 5.0.  I'm using a
!fast XT clone with 640K.  The combination of the PC applications
!I'm documenting and WordPerfect's memory requirements are
!causing me problems with DesQview.  I've tried SideKick, but
!that has other problems.  And WordPerfect's GRAB utility doesn't
!work on screens with non-graphic characters.
!
!I simply need to be able to capture whatever I can display on
!my monitor, and imbed that exact image in my WordPerfect
!documents.
!
!Does anyone have any ideas, or something I might try?

If your're using it with a postscript printer then you can use the
utility SCRtoPS to capture it into encapsulated postscript.  It uses
only 10K of memory and will work with box characters etc.  Contact
Offe Enterprises 708-357-6679 for more info.

Venu P. Gopal
att!ihuxy!vgopal