On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:58:29 -0500, P S wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Pinnacle <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm not aware of any emulator that does screen capture as text. If you
>> want text, have them Select All, then Cut and Paste into a word or text
>> document.
>>
How is that different from a "screen capture"?
>I think the problem is that at least one emulator (and I think it's Extra!
>but I see so many that I'm not sure) does a screen swipe -- even of PART OF
>THE SCREEN -- as a graphic. So for the average z/OS sysprog, for whom the
>mouse is an exotic input device, that's the "only" way to get part of the
>screen.
>
>Gil, I'd actually (gently) challenge your assertion that Hummingbird does
>this -- while it could have changed, I used it until a few years ago and I'm
>quite sure it wasn't an offender. I still blame Extra!. But then, I blame
>Extra! for most things, when I have to use it.
>
>(Why, yes, I *do* dislike Extra!, how did you guess? But they did give me a
>nice 64MB memory stick a few years ago, back when that was an interesting
>size, so they're not evil, just misguided.)
>
OK. My user, somewhat by accident, clicked on "Paste without Formatting"
simultaneously with the suggestion in this thread, and it worked.
So the Windows clipboard has parallel universes, JPEG and text.
And she said she had always been able to do it by pasting into
{ word | note }pad and copying from there. But she rightly calls
that a PITA, as is another suggestion of saving the screen to a
file and copying from that.
Thanks,
gil
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