VGA screen grabber wanted

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From: John Knight
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1991 05:05

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Does anyone know of a program (preferably public domain) that can grab a
320x200x8 VGA screen, with its palette, and dump it to a file? Preferably
this program would use a hot-key and write out a format that could easily
be imported (GIF, PCX, whatever...).

I have tried using Windows 3.0 and [PrtSc], but Windows complains that it
can't copy the screen to the clipboard in that VGA mode. Does this mean
that the palette and/or screen data is read-only, so the task would be
difficult at best, or that Windows just isn't coded to copy that VGA mode
into the clipboard?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Jack Knight
ARPA: jk44@andrew.cmu.edu

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Subject: VGA screen grabber wanted
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Date: 2 Apr 91 05:05:22 GMT
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