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Print screen for windows7 and windows8 different than XP

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First post, by steve.mackinney

Posted on 2013-03-02, 01:09

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In windows XP, the ctrl-prtscrn key puts text onto the clipboard which I can paste into Word and edit. In Windows7 and 8, ctrl-printscreen builds an image which I can paste into Word, but it cannot be edited like the text could. It appears as a picture of the screen instead of the data that was on the screen.

My application is a dos program written in Realia COBOL to do basketball stats and I need a way to move those stats into a word processor where I can add comments or delete unneeded lines, then email them.
Thanks for any suggestions you may have.

Steve

Reply 1 of 4, by Dominus

Posted on 2013-03-02, 06:35

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Dosbox is NOT the same as the command prompt. So what worked in XP command prompt does not necessarily work in Dosbox.
Copying to clipboard for example.

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Reply 2 of 4, by steve.mackinney

Posted on 2013-03-02, 14:38

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Dominus wrote:
Dosbox is NOT the same as the command prompt. So what worked in XP command prompt does not necessarily work in Dosbox.
Copying to clipboard for example.

Dominus, thanks. I was wondering if there was a work around or an option in DOXBox that would change the way screenprint worked.

Reply 3 of 4, by Dominus

Posted on 2013-03-02, 14:42

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There is a copy/paste hackish workaround. Search for posts by emendelson - he did that

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Reply 4 of 4, by emendelson

Posted on 2013-03-02, 15:41

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Dominus wrote:
There is a copy/paste hackish workaround. Search for posts by emendelson - he did that

For copying from DOSBox to the Windows clipboard, I wrote this awful hack:

Printing & clipboard-exchange - kludgy workaround for DOSBox under Windows

But it's so clumsy that it mostly confirms that DOSBox really, really is for games, not applications. For copying and pasting between a DOS application and Windows, you're probably better off using something like Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 or VMware Workstation and running Windows XP inside it, and running your DOS application inside that copy of Windows XP.

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