Trying to use GCP (Graphic Control Program) to print DOS screen

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From: Jay G. Heiser
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1988 20:45

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If you follow this newsgroup, you might have noticed that I was playing with
ANSI.SYS and making a batch file to install kermit on my users' hard drives.
(incidently, I figured out a way to check & see if DEVICE=ANSI.SYS has been
defined in CONFIG.SYS)
Now I've got an attractive screen in multiple colors and I want to make a
hard copy of it.  I have access to several 3270 PC/ATs that run GCP, the
Graphic Control Program, and actually run DOS as a task underneath it.
When you press the PrtScrn on a 3270 PC running GCP, it creates a .PIF file
that can be printed on an IBM printer with a simple utility program.  Its
easy to take a color snapshot of an interactive kermit session.
Unfortunately, you can't create a snapshot from DOS when the ANSI.SYS device
driver is running.

Is this the way of the world, or does some GCP expert know a way around this
limitation?  Is there such a thing as a GCP expert?

-- 
Jay Heiser                   UUCP: ..!umd5!vrdxhq!ms3!msicv01
                             ARPA: msicv01@hios-pent.arpa

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From: msicv01@ms3.UUCP (Jay G. Heiser)
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Subject: Trying to use GCP (Graphic Control Program) to print DOS screen
Message-ID: <768@ms3.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 88 20:45:00 GMT
Organization: Automation Management Consultants, Inc., Arl. VA
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Keywords: GCP, ANSI.SYS, MS-DOS, IBM, 3270 PC/AT