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Subject:Re: Screen Captures From:"Bergerson, Carl A" <Carl -dot- Bergerson -at- UNISYS -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 10 Oct 1997 13:44:06 -0000
Ralph,
If you're capturing character-based screens, it's far simpler to use a
terminal emulator on your PC. Save the capture buffer and use that as
the basis for your figures. There are no graphics so resolution is no
longer a concern.
Carl Bergerson
Mission Viejo
Product Information
carl -dot- bergerson -at- unisys -dot- com
> ----------
> From: RalphR3179 -at- AOL -dot- COM[SMTP:RalphR3179 -at- AOL -dot- COM]
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 1997 4:38 AM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Screen Captures
>
> Greetings all.
> I'm pretty certain I've seen the topic before but I'll be darned if
> I can
> find it in my archives.
> Does anyone have ideas/experience doing screen captures in a
> mainframe
> environment? My best guess at this point is remote terminal access
> from my
> computer (through Windows) then capture the window on my PC. Is there
> any way
> to do that from the mainframe itself?
> Please reply to my mailbox.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ralph Rumpf
> Documentation Specialists
>
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