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From: mikel@dosbears.UUCP (Mike Lipsie)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: PrintScreen from Windows
Message-ID: <314@dosbears>
Date: 10 May 91 18:45:53 GMT
References: <1991May8.142511.24278@ccad.uiowa.edu> <13604.28292851@ecs.umass.edu>
Reply-To: dosbears!mikel@pyramid.com (Mike Lipsie)
Organization: DOS Bears
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In article <13604.28292851@ecs.umass.edu> ssircar@ecs.umass.edu (Good writers re-write -- not write!) writes:
>In article <1991May8.142511.24278@ccad.uiowa.edu>, gosula@ccad.uiowa.edu (Saili Gosula-Markham) writes:
>> I have not been able to do PrintScreens from Windows.  Does anyone 
>> out there have the same problem?  It just acts like nothing is 
>> happenning.  If you can print can you tell me what I am doing wrong?
>> 
>You can't do printscreens.  The printscreen key copies the screen to the 
>clipboard.

There is a reason for it.  Printscreen only handles text.  There is
no text (in the ASCII sense) on a windows screen.


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