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From: colfelt@news.colorado.edu (COLFELT ANDREW BRINTON W)
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Subject: Re: PrintScreen from Windows
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Date: 14 May 91 20:05:26 GMT
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mikel@dosbears.UUCP (Mike Lipsie) writes:

>>In article 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.

Wrong.  RTFM, p.58

colfelt@tramp.colorado.edu