Re: Windows and printscreen

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From: Ralf Brown
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 04:10

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In article <17192mINN2ut@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> holland@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Rich Holland) writes:
}Easy, right?  WRONG.  I went into windows and did FILE-RUN and         
}specified COMMAND.COM -- got a shell to DOS from within Win30.
}I dumped the vector table via debug (debug, d0:0, q) and found
}that the Int 05h vector was *STILL* pointing to F000h:FF54h!
}And Win30 was *still* capturing the screen dumps!

Windows takes over the INT 09h keyboard interrupt, so it is presumably
checking for PrtSc itself and calling its own routines instead of INT 05h
as the ROM BIOS does.
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