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/ hpcupt1:comp.windows.ms / mikel@dosbears.UUCP (Mike Lipsie) / 11:45 am  May 10, 1991 /
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 can do printscreens!  You need to create a .PIF file for the application and
be sure to put an 'X' in the Alt+PrtSc box in the .PIF Editor menu.  Then, you
can use the combination of Alt+PrtSc to actually print the screen and PrtSc key alone to print to the clipboard.





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