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From: cms2839@isc.rit.edu (a.stranger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: PrintScreen from Windows
Message-ID: <1991May11.203755.11782@isc.rit.edu>
Date: 11 May 91 20:37:55 GMT
References: <1991May8.142511.24278@ccad.uiowa.edu> <13604.28292851@ecs.umass.edu> <314@dosbears>
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In article <314@dosbears> dosbears!mikel@pyramid.com (Mike Lipsie) writes:
>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.

				you mean the *DOS* PrintScreen only
handles text . the PrintScreen *key* simply triggers a printscreen
interrupt , which , by default , is handled by the dos printscreen
routine . hoever , any ISR can take over this interrupt , and there are
many printscreen replacements for DOS out there . in *windows* , using
an ISR isn't such a swift idea , but , as previously mentioned , the
printscreen *does* work ( just differently , and , in my way of thinking
, better ) , and , if monochrome bitmaps aren't good enough for you ,
you can use the shareware program SNAGIT .

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