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From: sbcs!ileung@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Ivan S Leung)
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Subject: Re: Printing selected text from OpenWindows ?
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In article <1975@brchh104.bnr.ca> JOEY%UTCVM.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Joey Maxie) writes:
>Can anyone tell me how to print selected text from a window in OpenWindows
>?  In sunview you could select the text from a window that you wanted and
>through the print services option print the selected text.  With
>OpenWindows I can not find this capability, the closet I have come to is
>taking a snapshot and this takes entirely to long and is to cumbersome.
>
>If it matters we are running SunOS 4.1.1 with OpenWindows Ver. 2 .  Thanks
>in advance for any assistance.

A not so elegant solution:
   Use the mouse to highlight the text you want to print.
   Hit the COPY key.
   Go to a shelltool and type lpr.
   Hit the PASTE key.
   Hit ctrl-D RETURN.

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