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Re: remote printing problems

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From: Leonard Erickson
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:15
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schumanm@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Matthias Schumann) writes:

>Is it possible in BASICA or GWBASIC to dump the graphics-screen from a
>program through a BAISC-function or anything else but the PRTSCRN-key  ??? 
>In elder GWBASIC there was a function called LCOPY, which is not 
>documented in the newest manuals. The statement is interpreted and 
>leads to no visible result without causing a SYNTAX ERROR.
>In BASICA I havn't heard of any dump-statement.

All you have to do is load Graphics.com, and then have your program
do an INT 5. I used to have a 4 or 5 line BASICA program that would
create the required code in RAM and call it.

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Leonard Erickson		      leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
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From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
Subject: Re: remote printing problems
Message-ID: <1992Jul24.191516.27985@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
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Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:15:16 GMT
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