how do I print screen in dos ?

ZL1

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Hi

anyone know of a way to print screen in dos ?

please let me know


Thanks
Dan
 

ZL1

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Originally posted by: Monkey muppet
Use the 'Pause break' button and a digital camera??????

I tried, many times
but no matter what shutter setting I use I still get a somewhat blurry pic
unless I use flash and then I get high reflection and again a bad pic :(


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Old Man River

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Gosh sakes!

It?s been fifteen years since I worked from Dos; I forget how to any more.

There is a way, but? I don?t know how now.
 

Monkey muppet

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As far as I'm aware - there is no way to do a print screen from DOS I beleive this is due to the way it address the memory.

There are .exe's you could load up from a 3rd party peice of software which will give you a /command
 

dullard

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In DOS, the print screen actually does what its name implys: it prints to your printer whatever is currently on the screen. Windows distorted it to become a copy screen button.
 

ZL1

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Originally posted by: dullard
In DOS, the print screen actually does what its name implys: it prints to your printer whatever is currently on the screen. Windows distorted it to become a copy screen button.

as the button is older than everything else :)


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dullard

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I did a google search for "TSR DOS copy screen". TSR stands for terminate and stay resident for the non-DOS people here. I got lots of links. You might even try "TSR DOS screen capture" and maybe get more results.

First link I got, scroll down to Screen Thief, it looks like it might do a copy screen.
 

ZL1

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Originally posted by: dullard
I did a google search for "TSR DOS copy screen". TSR stands for terminate and stay resident for the non-DOS people here. I got lots of links. You might even try "TSR DOS screen capture" and maybe get more results.

First link I got, scroll down to Screen Thief, it looks like it might do a copy screen.

Thank you !


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ZL1

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Originally posted by: dullard
Originally posted by: ZL1
Thank you !
You are welcome. Let us know if you find any good program that works.

will do

now if I could only keep memtest from rebooting :)
eh wouldnt help, not dos, wonder how do ppl screen shot it though ...
(random thoughts)


Thanks
Dan
 

imported_Kiwi

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Originally posted by: ZL1
print screen in dos ?
Actually, it was (Shift)+PrintScreen, the way I recall, and you just got straight TEXT, no graphics. As others are pointing out, we loaded various TSR's to use when we finally got screen graphics worth looking at!

When the first IBM-PC came along, you could choose between readable straight text ("MDA"), green text on a black screen, or 4 Colors and illegible white text on a black screen, in a 350 by 200 resolution matrix ("CGA"). Even if you had a CGA adapter, the builtin PrintScreen only printed text from the screen. Graphics was either ignored, or turned into gibberish.

And it's been too long now for most of us to recall what favorite Print Screen Utility we used!


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xgsound

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It's been a long time, but as I recall , to print anything besides ASCll text from dos you need a dos program (A TSR will do) and a dos driver for that program that supports your printer.

Even to print ACSll , the printer had to support it.(old pin printers did this, most current ones do not)

The last dos printer driver I used was for "Print shop deluxe" for a Canon BJC600 around 1994.

To do what you are asking , you need a printer that can support ASCll for text or a printer that is supported by the dos program you use.

Here at Anandtech is a good place to ask for guidance in finding what you need. We will need to know what printers you have avaliable and if you want to print text (ASCll) or graphics.

Jim
 

piasabird

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If this is text you might be able to divert output to the printer

>> prn

If this is a windows box and you are running a dos window or dos emulation windows change the printer driver so it accepts DOS output for printing. When you set up the printer you have to select that option. By default it is not used.
 

AMDZen

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Just do whatever you need and dump it to a text file. For example, if you wanted to get a directory listing of files from a particular directory you would type

dir > Whatever the hell you want.txt

Then there will be a file entitled Whatever the Hell you want.txt in the directory you were in when executing the command. Now open the .txt file and print it. You can do this with any dos command.
 

vailr

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In DOS, Shift-PrintScreen only works with some (but, not most) parallel-port printers. For example, a print out of the Bios setup screen should be possible this way.
MemTest doesn't use DOS, however. The bootable floppy content of MemTest is not readable in Windows. I was going to suggest trying Microsoft Virtual Machine; however, I don't think it would work with the MemTest program.