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From: pshuang@athena.mit.edu (Ping-Shun Huang)
Subject: Re: A TSR problem: Help.
In-Reply-To: sarat@lynx.eng.clemson.edu's message of 28 Jun 91 19:42:42 GMT
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In article <1991Jun28.194242.18857@hubcap.clemson.edu> sarat@lynx.eng.clemson.edu writes:

 > I want to use the GRAB (Screen grabber) Utility provided with WordPerfect,
 > in windows.  It is a TSR.  The invocation keys are Shift+Alt+F9.  But
 > nothing is happening when I press these keys while I am in windows.

Windows 3.0 grabs your hardware completely (unless you're running a DOS
session while *NOT* in 386 Enhanced mode), which means that the utility
provided with Wordperfect, like most TSR's, cannot detect that their
hotkey combination has been pressed if they were loaded *BEFORE* Windows.

Possible solutions: (a) if you're trying to grab the pretty Windows
screen (i.e. a screenshot of the Windows environment), you should try
using a different screen grabber utility which was designed to work
within Windows -- see your local favorite-FTP-site file listings; they
may not capture directly to .WPG format, but you can use the CONVERT
which comes with Wordperfect or some other package (again, there are
several shareware and PD programs which will do this and are widely
available); (b) if you're trying to grab the screen of a DOS
application, running DOS full screen, *THEN* loading GRAB, then running
the application you want, may help you get results.

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