Shift + PrtSc

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Hello all,

Can anyone please help?

i have a program in MS DOS that creates a rota for alot of customers, the
only problem is that the program only holds one weeks worth of information,

i need to know if there is any way in Windows XP that i can print a DOS
screen directly to printer (printing only text and sysmbols displayed on
screen, backgrouns and colours are not needed),

I used to use Shift+PrtSc command when using the program on a windows 98
system.

Any help or sugestions would be greatly appriciated.

Many thanks,
 
Shift+PrtSc works in conjunction with Paint. After you capture the screen,
open Paint then go to edit/paste. You can now print what is in Paint.

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
A further point. If you do an alt/prtscn you will copy only the window that
has focus, and not the whole desktop.

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Shift+PrtSc used to send a document straight to the printer spool, rather
than store the image in the Buffer memory... that is why i need the
Shift+PrtSc command to work... if not... does anyone know of another way of
sending information from DOS in windows XP directly to the printer??

Please note, screen grabbing is no good as this takes a picture of the
screen so incorporates the background colours... this is not needed.

Thank you for your help.
 
Hey Robert, this is a simple fix.

Basically you need to let Windows know to pass those key strokes down to the
DOS application.

First, you need to create a shortcut to that DOS application.

On the desktop somewhere, right click you mouse button. Select New then
Shortcut.
Browse to the exe, com or bat file you use to run the DOS application and
click next.
Name the shortcut and click Next.
(You might be asked to select an Icon after this as well)

Now that the icon is created on the desktop, right click on that shortcut
and select properties.
Click on the Misc tab.
The Windows Shortcut Keys groupbox contains the check boxes to enable print
screen.
Normally I UNCHECK PrtSc and Alt+PrtSc and everyone is able to print their
screens in DOS.

Did this answer your question?
 
Richard Urban said:
Shift+PrtSc works in conjunction with Paint. After you capture the screen,
open Paint then go to edit/paste. You can now print what is in Paint.
Click to expand...

Actually, it puts a copy of the screen on the clipboard. Then you can
paste it into *any* program that supports graphics. Paint has no
special privileges in this regard.
 
Robert said:
Shift+PrtSc used to send a document straight to the printer spool, rather
than store the image in the Buffer memory... that is why i need the
Shift+PrtSc command to work... if not... does anyone know of another way of
sending information from DOS in windows XP directly to the printer??

Please note, screen grabbing is no good as this takes a picture of the
screen so incorporates the background colours... this is not needed.

Thank you for your help.
Click to expand...

You could run the DOS program and redirect output to a text file or printer:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/redirection.mspx

You could aslo use the Edit function of command prompt window, mark and
copy the text you want and then paste into Notepad, etc.

This may also prove usefull:

http://www.printdesktop.com/

Steve
 
Actually it does nothing. Well as the shift is ignored it's the same as pressing Prt Screen.
 
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