Print screen in DOS program.

[Bob]

How can I get an image to the pasteboard in a DOS
program, and then paste it in word or paint (win XP).
Print screen used to work under Win 95.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Bob,

Works pretty much the same way in WinXP. PrintScreen copies the image to the
clipboard, then you can use edit/paste in most programs that support the
image.

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[Colin Painter]

<Alt><Print Screen> snaps the current window into the paste buffer.
<Shift><Print Screen> snaps the whole screen.

cp

 

[Rob Schneider]

How can I get an image to the pasteboard in a DOS
program, and then paste it in word or paint (win XP).
Print screen used to work under Win 95.

Works in XP also.

If full screen command prompt (what some call DOS), press PrtScn button,
copies text to clipboard. If command prompt is in a window, i.e.
graphics, when active window press ALT-PrtScn button to get active
window to clipboard.

Paste clipboard into another application ready to accept the text or
graphics.

It's irrelevant that this worked in Win 95 as Win 95 has nothing to with XP.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

The results of pressing the <PrtScn> while in full-screen
command-line mode creates a _text_ file that can be pasted into
NotePad, WordPad, or Word. Because the information isn't graphical in
nature, it cannot be pasted into Paint.

Bruce Chambers

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[Darrell]

Hmm. When I do that it copies a graphic of my DOS screen which will paste
into Paint, or PaintShopPro. Works both using command.com and cmd.exe.
That is when I open simulated DOS from Windows. I haven't tried it booting
directly to the DOS prompt.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

You're not in Full-screen mode. Open a command-prompt window and
then press <ALT>+<Enter>. (Press the same combination to toggle back
to the windowed environment.)

There is no way to boot "directly to the DOS prompt" in WinXP.


Bruce Chambers

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