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From: hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Sanjay Aiyagari)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows .CLP format (was: Re: Screen Grabber for Windows?)
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.181036.3814@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 2 Apr 91 18:10:36 EDT
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In article <439@frcs.UUCP>, paul@frcs.UUCP (Paul Nash) writes:
> Having just RTFM (:->), I see that _one_ possibility is to use [PrtSc]
> to dump the screen to the clipboard, and then save the clipboard to disk.
> However, to make this feasable, I need to know the format of the resulting
> .CLP file.  Can anyone help?  I am tempted just to start hacking it (it
> looks like a nice big bitmap, maybe 3 bytes/pixel for R/G/B?), but will
> probably wait in case someone else has some info to make my life easier.
>
> Ideas, comments, file formats or code are extremely welcome, as is
> information about commercial products to let me edit the image and
> save it in a usable format (colour GIF, TIFF, bitmap).

Why not open up Paintbrush, after you've captured the screen, choose Edit
Paste, and save the resultant image as a .BMP file?

Sanjay Aiyagari (hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu)