On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 at 14:10:26, Norman Dunbar wrote:
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><print screen not DOS>
>oh yes it was ! (AKA I beg to differ !)
>
>It started (?) in DOS where the print-scn button printed the text on screen
>to a printer (not sure if it was able to be redirected to a file though) in
>text mode.
I never worked out how either.
> In Windows (3.1 anyway) this was changed to copy the screen, or
>active window to the clipboard as a bit map. Under XP this has been removed
>- although Tony says that it works if the shift key is held down.
Certainly does. It is mind boggling though when one gets an image of a
full screen in a non-windowed viewer. It is difficult working what are
'real' items to click (8-)#
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