DOS TSR to save screen BMP to a file?

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Anyone know of a program that can do the above. Preferably, the TSR could be
invoked with a control key, such as Ctrl, and the PrtScr key to a file named
by the user.

Thanks for any help.

Dave
 
Dave said:
Anyone know of a program that can do the above. Preferably, the TSR could be
invoked with a control key, such as Ctrl, and the PrtScr key to a file named
by the user.
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Aside from being curious why you don't just PrintScrn
the window into the buffer, then paste it into MSPaint
for saving ... there are a few freeware clip programs
such as YankeeClipper and ClassicClip which will grab
all or parts of graphic screens and save them to files at
a touch of a key or two. But, you did say DOS ....

If you specifically want a DOS-only product, I don't know of any FREEWARE
that saved in a popular format.
There were some that saved in RAW format and were
then converted to whatever format by another freeware
program, and there was one that saved in a proprietary
format and had to be viewed with another special proggie.
There are plenty of shareware items that work without
limits, but nonetheless expect payment for continued use,
Snag-It and PCXDump coming to mind as the best of the
lot.
 
Anyone know of a program that can do the above. Preferably, the TSR could be
invoked with a control key, such as Ctrl, and the PrtScr key to a file named
by the user.
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From: Prof. Timo Salmi
Professor of Accounting and Business Finance
Department of Accounting and Finance
Faculty of Business Studies
University of Vaasa, Finland
(The guy's a genius)
I haven't tried this but found it milling around as usual and is free.
Screen Thief for DOS
Free 1/12/2004
A terminate and stay resident (TSR) utility which provides a screen
capture capability for DOS.
"To run Screen Thief with the default settings, extract and copy ST.EXE to
the floppy diskette. From an A: prompt Enter: st a:\ (or use st /? for more
help). Screen Thief will then be installed and you can run whatever program
you need to grab a screen from. To actually grab a screen, press the CTRL |
ALT and T keys together and you will hear a clicking noise from your PC
speaker as Screen Thief is working. The image file produced will be in
colour BMP format and given a name consisting of the first 6 letters of the
name of the program currently being run followed by a number; e.g.,
FILENA01.BMP. This file will be saved to the current directory, but you can
specify a different directory when you initialize Screen Thief as follows:
ST C:\CAPTURE . This will save all captured image files to the C:\CAPTURE
directory." [Assuming DOS can write to the C: drive; e.g., not in NTFS
format. Ed.]
The file st201f.zip can be downloaded from here:
( ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifutil/st201f.zip )
Or from here:
( http://www.grc.com/miscfiles/st201f.zip )

I found this at:
http://lists.gpick.com/pages/MS_DOS.htm
If you want to save the page.
 
Thanks dszady. It looks like it will do the job. I'll check it out.

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dszady said:
Anyone know of a program that can do the above. Preferably, the TSR could be
invoked with a control key, such as Ctrl, and the PrtScr key to a file named
by the user.
Click to expand...

From: Prof. Timo Salmi
Professor of Accounting and Business Finance
Department of Accounting and Finance
Faculty of Business Studies
University of Vaasa, Finland
(The guy's a genius)
I haven't tried this but found it milling around as usual and is free.
Screen Thief for DOS
Free 1/12/2004
A terminate and stay resident (TSR) utility which provides a screen
capture capability for DOS.
"To run Screen Thief with the default settings, extract and copy ST.EXE to
the floppy diskette. From an A: prompt Enter: st a:\ (or use st /? for more
help). Screen Thief will then be installed and you can run whatever program
you need to grab a screen from. To actually grab a screen, press the CTRL |
ALT and T keys together and you will hear a clicking noise from your PC
speaker as Screen Thief is working. The image file produced will be in
colour BMP format and given a name consisting of the first 6 letters of the
name of the program currently being run followed by a number; e.g.,
FILENA01.BMP. This file will be saved to the current directory, but you can
specify a different directory when you initialize Screen Thief as follows:
ST C:\CAPTURE . This will save all captured image files to the C:\CAPTURE
directory." [Assuming DOS can write to the C: drive; e.g., not in NTFS
format. Ed.]
The file st201f.zip can be downloaded from here:
( ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifutil/st201f.zip )
Or from here:
( http://www.grc.com/miscfiles/st201f.zip )

I found this at:
http://lists.gpick.com/pages/MS_DOS.htm
If you want to save the page.
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