On Saturday, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
] Yes, I've seen keyboards of the type you describe, but never on a Window$
] 95 machine. I had always thought that Window$ 95 insists on having its
] own special type of keyboard, which, by the way, does not include a
] "PRINT SCREEN" key on all the Window$ 95 keyboards that I've seen.
FWIW My W95 keyboard has the Print Screen button, in the same place
as the 386's compucon keyboard. It might be labelled "PrntScrn" or
similar. Why would they remove such a key? We all still have a Scroll
Lock button. :)
It just puts a bitmap of your screen into the clipboard. Pressing
Ctrl-PrintScreen (IIRC) just captures the current window. I have used
this under WNT to capture it using 70MB of RAM with no programs
loaded, except the Task Manager.
] Marking and capturing text to clipboard and then pasting it onto another
] file is a time-consuming procedure involving many steps. It is so much
] easier to simply press the "PRINT SCREEN" key and have the entire screen
] printed to a user-specified file. There are a lot of things you can do
] very easily with DOS, but difficult and complicated to do with Window$.
Under DOS mode is Ctrl-P (IIRC) able to be used? But this key combo
would be taken over by most applications so pretty useless...
I have seen shareware utilities that "Give you back the power of your
Print Screen button" for W95, but I forget everything about it. Maybe
check simtelnet/win95/graphics or something?
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