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From: barryf@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Barry B. Floyd)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Print Screen keyboard option and Windows
Summary: want way to print DOS window text to printer
Keywords: Print screen
Message-ID: <N+&&Q'%@rpi.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 91 17:42:02 GMT
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Although we here are slowly weening ourselves from our DOS
applications a few remain. Some users wish to press PrintScreen,
Ctrl-PrintScreen and/or Shift-PrintScreen in order to dump
the current text screen and/or future text screens to their
local printer (e.g. one screen messages, brief instructions/help)
 
Apparently Windows traps the PrintScreen button and sends the
screen to the clipboard. In and of itself this is a useful 
feature when documenting Windows programs. However, on some
machines full screen DOS windows may be printed, as per pre-
windows. I can't quite figure out why one system enables
printing to the printer and another "prints" to clipboard.
 
Any comments, suggestions, page numbers, etc. would be appreciated...

barry


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