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From: regoli@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows image grabber
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.221518.3554@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 26 Feb 91 22:15:18 GMT
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In article <12337@helios.TAMU.EDU> mcl9337@aim1.tamu.edu (MARK
CHRISTOPHER LOWE) writes: 

  I'm not sure if you know this or not, but I was quite surprised a
  few days ago to find out that if you hit PrintScrn from inside
  Windows, an image of the current screen will be placed in the
  Clipboard.  From there, you can paste it into Paintbrush or some
  other utility and butcher it to your heart's content.

Indeed.  However, does anyone know why Windows refuses to copy high
bits when in a DOS session (full screen)?  In other words, characters
such as ASCII 176 through 223 don't get transferred to the clipboard.
I'm writing a software manual and I'd like to take some screen shots
of the software that's running in text-mode.  (I'd use WordPerfect's
GRAB utility, but I'm not in graphics mode.)

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michael regoli
regoli@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu
regoli@iubacs.BITNET